In the vicinity of Kansas, specimens of this species are known from Missouri (St. Louis and Stone Counties only) and northwestern Arkansas (Washington County: Winslow and Prairie Grove, Mus. Nat. Hist., Univ. Kans., Nos. 16526, 18820, 18823). Reëxamination of these specimens confirms their identity as Rana sylvatica sylvatica to which the Missouri specimens from Stone County undoubtedly also belong. Accordingly this race is still to be anticipated in extreme southeastern Kansas.
Reference of the specimen from Lyon County to Rana s. cantabrigensis presents a problem in distribution, for the race is not known from nearer Kansas than North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and southern Illinois, except for a record given by Cope (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34:437, 1889) from "western Missouri." Hurter (Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci., 20:123, 1911) restricts this record to Cooper County, and presumably verifies Cope's identification. Hurter, too, recognized the other form, R. sylvatica, in Missouri (Marble Cave, Stone County). Cope distinguished between the two races (as they are now recognized) and recorded typical R. sylvatica from St. Louis. Accordingly the specimen from Cooper County may be considered properly identified racially. It apparently is from the locality nearest to Kansas at which the race has been taken.
It seems highly probable that the Kansas occurrence, and possibly those in Arkansas and Missouri also, is a relict one. It is highly improbable that the species has a continuous distribution in either state. A wider or more southern distribution in the past seems evident. The group to which it belongs certainly has had a more southern range, as indicated by Taylor's discovery in Meade County, Kansas (Univ. Kans. Sci. Bull., 28:217, 1942), of a fossil species of Rana (parvissima), from the Upper Pliocene, presumably related to sylvatica. It may or may not have been a direct ancestor of the living species.
Microhyla olivacea (Hallowell), Northern Narrow-mouthed Toad.—Lyon Co.: 6 miles southwest of Emporia. Wilson Co.: 7 miles northeast of Fall River.
Crotaphytus collaris collaris (Say), Collared Lizard.—Geary Co.: 4 miles south of Fort Riley. Wabaunsee Co.: 2 miles northeast of Alma.
Holbrookia maculata maculata (Girard), Earless Lizard.—Chase Co.: 7 miles south of Saffordville (No. 350)*; 6 miles southwest of Saffordville; 1 mile south of Saffordville (No. 338)*; 10 miles southwest of Olpe. Hodgeman Co.: Jetmore. Lyon Co.: 5 miles south of Plymouth; 6 miles southeast of Emporia; 9 miles southwest of Emporia. Ness Co.: 4 miles west and 1.5 miles north of Ness City (Nos. 480, 481, 484-497, 609-611)*, 6 miles west and 0.5 miles south of Ness City (Nos. 482, 483, 498).*
Sceloporus undulatus garmani Boulenger, Northern Plains Lizard.—Ellsworth Co.: Carneiro; 10 miles south of Ellsworth. McPherson Co.: 4 miles west of Roxbury (No. 133). Ness Co.: 4 miles west and 1.5 miles north of Ness City (No. 479, 612).*
Phrynosoma cornutum (Harlan), Texas Horned Lizard.—Ellsworth Co.: 10 miles south of Ellsworth. Lyon Co.: 1 mile south of Emporia; 8 miles southwest of Emporia. Saline Co.: Coronado Heights; 3 miles northwest of Lindsborg.
Ophisaurus ventralis (Linnaeus), Glass-snake Lizard.—Lyon Co.: Emporia; 1 mile southwest of Emporia (No. 288).* Rooks Co.: 5 miles southwest of Stockton (No. 407).*
Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Linnaeus), Six-lined Racerunner.—Ellsworth Co.: Carneiro. Lyon Co.: 1.5 miles northwest of Reading. Shawnee Co.: 5 miles east of Topeka (No. 14).*