STRAIT-LIPPED WARTY-NEWT. 



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URODELA. 



SALAMANDRID^. 



-. .-vfr? 





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STRAIT-LIPPED WARTY^NEWT. 



Triton Bibronii. Mihi. 



Specific Character. — The same as Tr. cristatu^ 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 tuberculated. 

 Colour darker. 



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



Of the existence of this second species of tuberculated 

 Triton we were ignorant, until my friend, M. Bibron, de- 

 tected it in the collection of the Zoological Society, 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. cristatus, living ; and have now 

 before me the specimen belonging to the Society upon which 



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