22 BULLETIN 194, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



MAGNADIGITA SULCATA (Brocchi)!" 



Spelerpes sulcatum Brocchi, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans TAm^rique 

 centrale, pt. 3, sect. 2, livr. 3, 1883, p. 112, pi. 20, fig. 2. 



Type.— Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. 

 Type locality. — Mexico. 

 Range . — Unknown . 



MAGNADIGITA NIGROFLAVESCENS (Taylor) 



Bolitoglossa nigroflavescens Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 27, 1941, pp. 



150-152, pi. 8, pi. 9, figs. 9-10. 

 Magnadigita nigroflavescens Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 30, 1944, p. 218. 



T^/^e.— U.S.N.M. No. 111169. 



Type locality. — Cerro Ovando, Chiapas, Mexico, elevation between 

 5,000 and 6,000 feet. 



Range. — Known only from type locality. 



MAGNADIGITA MACEINH (Lafrentz) 



Oedipus macrinii Lafrentz, Abh. Ber. Mus. Magdeburg, vol. 6, 1930, pp. 150- 



152.21 

 Bolitoglossa macrinii Taylor, Herpetologica, vol. 2, 1941, p. 65. 

 Magnadigita macrinii Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 30, 1944, p. 218. 



Type. — Museum Madgeburg N. V. 52/29. 



Type locality. — Cerro Espino, 1 ,000 meters, near Concordia, Oaxaca, 

 Mexico. 



Range. — Known from the type locality. 



Genus BOLITOGLOSSA Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril 



Bolitoglossa (part) Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril, Erp^tologie g6n6rale, vol. 9, 

 1854, p. 88. 



Genotype. — Bolitoglossa mexicana Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril 

 (=Salamandra platydactylus Gray). 



Range. — Eastern San Luis PotosI to Pard, Brazil, and northern 

 Bolivia. 



Species. — Twenty are recorded, of which six are known from 

 Mexico. 



KEY TO MEXICAN SPECIES OF BOLITOGLOSSA 



1. Teeth absent on maxilla; diminutive form; tail much shorter than head 



and body rufescens (p. 23) 



Teeth present on maxilla, arising from a flat surface, not from edge of jaw_ 2 



2. Diminutive species; tail much shorter than head and body. 



occidentalis (p. 23) 



*) Generic allocation uncertain, since the type (the only known specimen) has not been examined. 

 F " Also described as a new species in Lafrentz, Blatter fiir Aquar.-Terr., vol. 32, Feb. 28, 1931, pp. 55-56, 

 1 fig. This actually may have antedated the publication referred to here. 



