126 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



Kreyenberg. Walterstorff adds (p. 132) "Sonst in China von Muping, West- 

 Sze-Tschuan, bekannt." 



Probably the species will prove widely distributed in China from the Yangtze 

 southward. 



AMBLYSTOMATIDAE. 



BATRACHYPTERUS SINENSIS (Sauvage). 

 Plate 1, Fig. 1. 



SAUVAGE, Bull. Soc. philom. eer. 7, 1, p. 117. 

 BOULENOER, Cat. Batr. Grad., 1882, p. 37. 



It is a pleasure to record the capture of this rare form at Lianghokow, west- 

 ern Szechwan, at an altitude of over 12,000 feet. Mr. Zappey tells me that the 

 single example taken was walking over a bed of damp moss among the stunted 

 spruces and firs at the very limit of tree growth. There was no pond or stream 

 of running water near by. It varies considerably from Boulenger's description 

 in that the tail is little compressed and shows much less fin than his figure does ; 

 the digits are somewhat more slender; and the coloration is slightly different. 

 The most important difference, however, is that the palatine teeth, instead of 

 being "in two short transverse arched series between the choanae," are in two 

 straight series slanting sharply and converging slightly anterior to the choanae; 

 but still with a wide interspace, as Boulenger describes. Altogether while a 

 series might prove that this form is specifically distinct, it seems more likely 

 that the differences are due to individual variation, which in such characters 

 as length of digits, for instance, so often shows such marked differences in these 

 lowly forms. 



BUFONIDAE. 

 BUFO BUFO GARGARIZANS (Cantor). 



CANTOR, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1842, 9, p. 483. 

 STEJNEOER, Bull. 58, U. S. N. M., 1907, p. 68. 



Mr. Zappey took nine toads about Ichang. These have been referred with 

 a certain hesitation to Cantor's subspecies as Stejneger defined its range. Unfor- 

 tunately we have no Russian, Turkestan, or Upper Chinese material available 

 for comparison. The specimens vary greatly in the distinctness of the tym- 

 panum, which is easily seen, and is half as large as the eye in some, while in 



