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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



HYNOBIUS N^VIUSo (Schlegel). 

 Plate III, figs. 1-3. 



ISSS.—Salawandra nu'vin Schlegel, Fauna Jap., Kept., pp. 122, 129, Saur. et 

 Balr., pi. IV, figs. 4-6 ;& pi. v, figs. 9-10 (type-locality, Hondo and 

 Shikoku; types in Rijksniuseiun, Leiden; Siebokl, collector); Abbild. 

 Amphib., 1844, p. 122, pi. xxxrx, fig. 4 (color from life). — Geerts, 

 Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, (2)V, 1883, p. 275. — Ellipsoglossa naevia Dumeril 

 and BiBRON, Erp6t. Gen., IX, 1854, p. 99, pi. ci, fig. 5 (Japan, Siebold 

 coll.).— Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. (7), XVI, 1870, p. 55 

 (Japan; China?). — Fritze, Mitth. Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asions, V, 1891, 

 p. 239 (absent in Yezo). — Hynobius nsevius Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 

 1859, p. 125.— Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 1870, p. 384 

 (Nagasaki). — Okada, Cat. Vert. Jap., 1891, p. 65 (Kyoto). 



1850. — Molge striata Gray, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., p. 31 (not of Merrem 1820). 



Description (figs. 17-22).— Adult female; U.S.N.M. No. 23901; 

 Kumamoto, province Higo, Kiiisiu; Nakagawa, collector. Yomero- 



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Figs. 17-22.— Hynobius n^vius. 2 x nat. size. 17, top of head; 18, side of head; 19, open mouth; 

 20, section of tail at end of uasal third (IJ NAT. SIZE); 21, hand; 22, foot. Sci. Coll., Tokyo. 



palatine series long, forming a very acute angle posteriorly, length of 

 inner principal branch about equaling three-fourths the width of the 

 tongue, the outer, short, recurring branch forming an acute angle; head 

 rounded anteriorly, flat, somewhat concave behind the eyes; nostrils 

 situated halfvyay between eye and tip of snout, their distance from 

 each other equaling the interorbital space; eyes large, prominent, 

 their longest diameter nearly equaling the interorbital space, which is 



" Latin, signifying spotted. 



^ Reproduced in this work on Plate III, tigs. 1-3. 



