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pedicel, the posterior portion and sides being free ; body and extremities slender ; 

 four fingers and five toes ; first finger very short, the third the longest ; first toe 

 quite short, considerably shorter than the fifth, third and fourth of about equal 

 length; two well marked tubercles ujion the palms of the hands, the one at the 

 base of the first, the other at the base of the fifth finger; none are observed 

 upon the toes ; tail tapering, cylindrical, slightly compressed, not so long 

 as head, neck and body. 



Coloration. Brownish above, but on close inspection with a magnifying glass, 

 the whole surface appears to be covered with minute black points upon an olive 

 ground ; the sides are also minutely punctated with black; under parts Indian 

 yellow, without spots. 



Dimensions. Length of head 5 lines; greatest breadth 4; length of neck and 

 body to veut 1 inch 7 lines ; length of tail 1 inch 7 lines ; total length 3 inches 

 7 lines. 



Habitat California? (This Urodele was sent from California without indica- 

 tion of locality, it may therefore have been found in Oregon.) One specimen 

 presented by Mr. George B. Davidson, of the U. C. Survey.' 



Oen, Remarks. This remarkable Urodele differs greatly in the arrangement of 

 its teeth from Aneides, the rows of which are closely approximated and thickly 

 set, (Fam. Plethodontida3,) but resembles more closely Spelerpes, but differs 

 from it more especially in the tongue being tied down anteriorly, whereas in 

 the ordinary Bolitoglossidaj it is mushroom-shaped, as the name indicates, and 

 free all around ; the tongue in the Bolitoglossidae is for the most part entire, 

 (in lon^icauda it is notched posteriorly,) but the minute arrangement of the 

 sphenoidal teeth is different. This animal would appear to belong to the group 

 Ensatinina of Mr. Gray, but in Triton ensatus (Ensatina Escholtzii, Gray,) there 

 are no sphenoidal teeth. 



Appmdix. Since the above was written my attention has been directed by 

 P. L. Sclater, Esq., of the Zoological Society of London, to the work of Mr. Gosse, 

 entitled a Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Henry Gosse, F. L. S., &c., 

 London, 1851, in which I find descriptions of the species of Anolis, iodurus and 

 opalinus, (see also Annals and Magazine of Natural History, second series, 

 1850, p. 344, 345.) Anolis leucocephalus is identical with Placopsis ocellata ; 

 Gosse, p. 346. Besides the above, Mr. Gosse has described another species of 

 Anolis inhabiting Jamaica, viz., Draconura catenata, and two species of Spbajrio- 

 dactylus, viz., S. argus and oxyrhinus. The author gives a very interesting 

 account of the habits of the two species iodurus and opalinus described by him 

 (p. 220, 227.) A figure is also given of Anolis, (Dactyloa) Edwardsii, pi. iv. 

 The, reptiles of Jamaica appear for the most part to be specifically distinct from 

 those of Cuba. The following is a comparative list of those enumerated by 

 Dumeril and Bibron, Mr. Gray, Mr. Gosse, and others, including those described 

 or mentioned in this paper. To these 1 have added a list of the reptiles of Mar- 

 tinique, for the habitat of which I am indebted to Dumeril and Bibron. 



