152 SALAMANDRAD A. 
convinced that it is to be considered as a variety only of 
the present species; there is not the slightest structural 
difference between them, they are the same in size and 
form. It is also, in all probability, the Salamandre cein- 
turée of Latreille. Its claim to a British locality rests, as 
Mr. Gray informs me, upon its having been found in the 
British Museum in a bottle containing other British speci- 
mens, and marked ‘“ England.” There is no reason, there- 
fore, to doubt that they are British, and there is ground 
for believing that they were taken at no great distance from 
London. 
Having given my own reasons for my entire conviction 
that Triton vittatus of Gray is a variety only of the pre- 
sent species, I think it right, in justice to Mr. Gray, to add 
