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BULLETIN 58;, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1838. 



a Type. 



HYNOBIUS NEBULOSUS" (Schlegelj. 



Plate III, figs. 4-6. 

 Salamandra nebulosa Schlegel, Fauna Jap., Rept., pp. 127, 139, Savir. et 

 Batr., pi. IV, figs. 7-9 b (type-locality, "Mits jama" near Nagasaki, Kiusiu; 

 types in Rijksmuseum, Leiden; Sieljold, collector); Abbild. Amphib., 

 1844, p. 126, pi. XL, figs. 7-10 (color from life). — GEERTSf Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. Paris (2),V, 1883, p. 275. — Eynobius nebulosus Tschudi, Classif. Batr., 

 1838, pp. 60, 94.— Gray, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1850, p. 30 (Japan).— 

 BouLENGER, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 32 (Nikko).— Okada, 

 Cat. Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 65 (Nikko).— Sclater, Batr. Ind. Mus., 1892, 

 p. 36 (Yezo(?)).— BoETTGER, Kat. Batr. Mus. Senckenberg., 1892, p. 52 

 (Nagasaki). — Ellipsoglossa naiwa DuMERiLand Bibron, Erpet. Gen., IX, 

 1854, p. 100 (Japan).— Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg(7), 

 XVI, 1870, p. 55 (Japan).— Fritze, Mitth. Deutscli. Ges. Ost-Asiens, V, 

 1891, p. 239 (absent in Yezo). 



Description. — Adult male; Science Colle<i:e Museum, Tokyo, No. 51; 

 Nikko (ficjs. 23-26). Vomero-palatine series of teeth lont?, forming 



an acute angle posteri- 

 orly, length of inner 

 \> V i n c i p a 1 1 ) r a n c h 

 e(|ualing one-half the 

 witlth of the tongue, 

 the outer, short, re- 

 curving branch form- 

 ing an arch with the 

 inner one; head flat, 

 broad; nostrils situ- 

 ated much nearer the 

 tip of snout than the 

 eyes, their distance 

 from each other equal- 

 ing the interorbital 

 space; eyes moderate, 

 their long diameter 

 about equaling two- 

 thirds the width of the 

 i nterorbital space, 

 wliich is at least twice 

 No. 51, SCI. CoLi.. Tokyo. ^\^^, widtli of the u])per 



eyelid; distance from tij) of snout to giilar fold contained three and 



one-fourth times in distance from gular fold to anterior border of vent ; 



a Latin, signifying clouded. & Reproduced in this work on Plate III, figs. 4-6. 



Figs. 2:^26.— ITynobius nebulosus. 2 x nat. size. 2.3, top of 

 he.\d; 24, SIDE OF head; 25, open mouth; 2t), section of tail at 



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