140 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on the 



11. Ancistrodon intermedins, Strauch. 

 Trigonocephalies intermedins, Strauch, op. cit. p. 245. 



Inhabits Eastern Siberia, as far west as the Government 

 of Irkutsk, and Japan. Four specimens are in the British 

 Museum, viz. one (a) from the River Kunge (from the St. 

 Petersburg Museum), one (b) from Sincinogorsk (from the 

 Bremen Geographical Society), and two (c, d) from Chaba- 

 rowka (Domes Collection). 



The scaling of these four specimens is as follows : — 



a. b. c. d. 



Labials 7—7 7—8 7—7 7—8 



Rows of scales 23 23 23 23 



Ventrals 161 166 155 156 



Suhcaudals 49 45 40 40 



12. Ancistrodon Blomhoffii, Boie. 



Trigonocephalies Blomhqffii, Strauch, op. cit. p. 251. 



Inhabits Japan, the greater part of China, and Amoorland. 

 In the British Museum from the Ussuri River. 



BATRACHIA. 



ECAUDATA. 

 13. Rana temporaria, L. 



The range of the common frog extends eastwards to 

 Amoorland (Kasakewicha, Berlin Museum) , and Yesso. The 

 Asiatic specimens in the British Museum are from Ilisk, 

 Eastern Turkestan (Lansdell), Sinus Abrek, E. Siberia, and 



Yesso. 



14. Rana amurensis. (PI. IX. fig. 1.) 

 Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 598. 



The original description of this very distinct species, the 

 smallest of the temporaria-grou\>, was taken from two speci- 

 mens from Kasakewicha, on the Amoor, preserved in the 

 Berlin Museum. The following description is based upon 

 nine specimens from Lake Kanka, collected by Hr. Domes. 

 We have also numerous specimens from Chemulpo, Corea, 

 but in bad condition. 



Vomerine teeth in two short oblique series or oval groups 

 behind the level of the choanse. Head rather depressed, as 

 long as broad ; snout rather elongate, rounded, scarcely pro* 

 jecting ; loreal region not very oblique : nostril halfway 



