302 [February, 



broad fold of skin on eacli side from head to hind legs. Longest toe scarcely 

 webbed beyond the penultimate joint. 



Above dark olive, with rather large circular black blotches distributed pretty 

 uniformly, though smaller on the sides. Each spot is lighter in the centre. 

 Beneath yellow, marbled with dark brown, thickly crowded except about the 

 srroins. A pale greenish line extends from just below the eye to the shoulder. 

 Hind limbs broadly barred with dark brown. Lateral cuticular fold paler, a 

 black blotch at the base of the arm in front. 



Darker above and below, smoother, and with the snout more acute than in 

 Txuna Daytonii. 



Length 2\ inches. Hind limbs 3J. 



Hah. San Francisco. 



5. Aneides lugubris Baird. Iconographic Encyclopaedia, H, 1859, (1st ed.) 

 256. Salamandra lugahris^ Hallow., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., IV., 1848, 

 12G. 



Hah* San Francisco. 



G. Batrachoseps attenuata Bon. Fauna ital., 1841. Baird, Journ. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc, Phila., I, 1849,288. Salamandra attemiata^ Eschsch. Zool. atl., 1853, 

 pi. xxi. fig. 1 14. 



Hah. San Francisco. 



7. Taricha LvEvis B. and G. Allied to T. torosa Gray, but smoother, having 

 but slight indications of granulations. Tail very much compressed, with a 

 fringe along the whole upper edge and the posterior half of the lower. Color 

 above dark purplish brown, beneath bright yellow, the line of demarcation very 

 distinct. Body 3 inches long ; tail 4i. 



Hah. San Francisco. 



The Committee on a paper by the Rev. Mr. Berkley and the Rev. 

 M. A. Curtis, on the ^^ Exotic Fungi from the Schweinitzian Herbarium, 

 Ike.,'' reported in favor of publication in the Journal. 



The Report of the Corresponding Secretary was read and adopted. 



ELECTION. 



jMr. H. Cooper Hanson; of Philadelphia; was elected a Memher of the 

 Academy. 



