140 



SALAMAXDRADjE. 



URODELA. 



SALAMANDRADJE. 











% 



STRAIT-LIPPED WARTY-NEWT. 



Triton Bibronii. Mihi. 



Specific Character. — The same as Tr. cristatus, excepting that the upper lip 

 is perfectly straight, meeting the lower, and not overhanging it. The skin, and 

 particularly that of the head, much more rugous and more strongly tuherculated. 

 Colour darker. 



Triton marmoratus, Bibron, in Proc. Zool. Soc. non Latr. 



Of the existence of this second species of tuberculated 

 Triton we were ignorant, until my friend, the late M. 

 Bibron, detected it in the collection of the Zoological So- 

 ciety, and from the character of the lip believed it to be the 

 Tr. marmoratus of Latreille. In the course of the last 

 spring I had several, both of this species and of Tr. crista- 

 tus, living ; and have now before me the specimen belong- 

 ing to the Society upon which M. Bibron's opinion was 

 founded, as well as one of the true marmoratus, which he 

 has kindly sent me from Paris. I have also examined 



