16 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



In the lueaiitinio the Tollow in^^ key must suffice: 



KEY TO JAI'ANESK SPECIES OP DIEMICTYLL'S. 



a ' Head smaller; digits longer; tail t^hortcr; color in life, underneath red, underside of 

 digits blackish ^■'- pyrrhogaster, p. 16. 



a^ Head larger; digits shorter; tail longer; color in life, underneath, including under- 

 side of^digits, yellowish Th ensicauda, p. 21. 



DIEMICTYLUS PYRRHOGASTER" (Boiej. 



IMORI. 



Plate II. 



1826. Molge pyrrhogaster Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 215 (type-locality, Japan; Blomhoff, 

 collector); Bijdr Natuurk. Wetensch., II, Pt. 1, 1827, p. 21.— Molge pyrrho- 

 gastra Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 19 (Nagasaki; Kiu- 

 kiang Mts. China).— Okada, Cat. Vert. Jap., 1891, p. 65 (Tokyo; Kyoto; 

 Kaga; Suwo).— Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Natiirk. 26-28 Ber., 1888, p. 

 101; Kat. Batr. Mus. Senckenberg. , 1892, p. 56 (Yokohama; Nagasaki). — 

 ScLATER, List Batr. Indian Mus., 1892, p. 35 (Hakone; Lake Biwa). — 

 Cynops pyrrhogaster Gray, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1850, p. 25 

 (Japan). — Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 39. — Hilgen- 

 DORF, Sitz. Ber. Naturf. Fr. Berlin. 1880, p. 120 (Tokyo; prov. Kazusa; 

 Hakone Mts.). — Triton pyrrhogaster Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. 

 Petersb. (7), XVI, No. 4, 1870, p. 51 (Japan; China?).— Iwakaava, Quart. 

 Journ. Microsc. Sci., XXX, 1882, p. — ; Zool. Anz., V, 1882, p. Ift.—Sala- 

 mandra pyrrhogastra Geerts. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, (2) V, 1881, p. 275 

 (Japan). — Diemyctylus pyrrhogaster Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 

 1889, p. 201. 



1838. Salamandra suhcristata Schlegel, Fauna Jap. Kept., pp. 125-139; Saur. et 

 Batr. pi. lY, figs. 1-3; & pi. v, figs. 7-8 (type-locality, Japan; types in Lei- 

 den Mus.; Siebold and Buerger, collectors); Abbild. Amph., 1844, p. 122, 

 pi. XL, figs. 1-3 (color from life). — Cynops suhcristatus Tschudi, Classif. 

 Batr., 1838, p. 94, pi. ii, figs. a-c. — Triton suhcristatus Dumeril and 

 Bibron, Erpet. Gen., IX, 1854, p. 140 (Japan). — Hallowell, Proc. 

 Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 494 (in part: "Japan"). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. 

 Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 1866, pp. 109, 116; 1876, p. 384 (Yokohama).— 

 Fritze, Mitth. Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, V, 1891, p. 239 (Yezo?). 



1898. Triton suhcristatus var. typica Krefft, Verh. Ges. Deutsch. Natiirf. Aerzte, 

 69 Vers. Braunschw., 1897, II, Pt. 1, p. 187 (Tokyo; Kyoto). 



1898. Triton subtristatus var. imviaculiventris Krefft, Verh. Ges. Deutscli. Natui'f. 

 Aerzte, 69 Vers. Braunschw., 1897, II, Pt. 1, p. 187 (Kiusiu). 



1906. Triton pyirhogaster subsp. typica Wolterstorff, Abh. Mus. Magdeburg, 

 1906, p. 162. 



Description. — Adult male; U.S.N.M. No. 31796; Kyoto, Hondo, 

 Japan; April 20, 1903; Dr. Hugh M. Smith, collector. Vomero- 

 palatine teeth in two closely approximated longitudinal series begin- 

 ning between the choamTe and continued posteriorly to beyond a line 

 between the comers of the mouth, in the anterior half nearly parallel, 

 then strongly diverging; tongue small, its width about one-half that 

 of the mouth; nostrils anterior, barely visible from above, their dis- 

 tance from each other considerably less than their distance from the 



aFrom itvppoi, fiery red; ya6n)p, belly, b Reproduced in this work, Plate II. 



