Chicago, IL, Chicago Natural History Museum, 1950. 4to (29.5 x 23.1 cm). Title page to the journal, half title and title to the work, pp. [5]-400, frontispiece, ten mostly full colour plates, 100 numbered text figures. Contemporary full buckram with black title on the spine.

Written by the Chinese herpetologist Ch'eng-Chao (or Chengzhao) Liu (1900-1976). Adler describes him as "China's most prominent herpetologist". This is his magnum opus, based on his researches in the area after he was forced to move from the herpetologically much better known east of China due to the Japanese invasion. The descriptions and illustrations, of tadpoles and adult animals, are numerous and excellent. It also contains a chapter on zoological explorations between 1933 and 1946, and many notes on the habits and habitats of the various species. Several species were described earlier, and shorter, by Liu, but at least one subspecies is new. This is Fieldiana Zoology Memoirs volume 2. Stamp of the American zoologist, herpetologist and conservationist Lauren Evans Brown (1939-2021) on first blank, volume title, half-title, and last leaf verso; otherwise, a very well-bound, very clean, near mint copy. Bound copies are very uncommon; we had such a copy only once before. Adler I, p. 123-124.