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scarcely broader than in Z. punctatus in the full season ; 
the tail is not much more than half the depth, and termin- 
ating rather abruptly, and is furnished at its extremity with 
a small filament, which varies in length from two to four 
lines; and in the female dwindles to a mere mucronation. 
The colours of the back and sides are more clear and bright, 
although generally darker. ‘The spots are more numerous 
and often confluent; and the tail has two distinct longitu- 
dinal fascie of spots, with occasionally a few between 
them; but the inferior margin is invariably and distinctly 
pale and immediate. The female is ordinarily paler than 
the male; but the spots on the tail are in general more 
numerous, smaller, and disposed to become confluent. 
This interesting species has now been found in very 
various localities. Mr. Wolley has the following interest- 
ing note in the Zoologist, of its extreme northern habi- 
tat :—“‘ I have to report the existence of our recently 
ascertained Newt, in the extreme north of the island. On 
the Ist of August I found several females and one male in 
a little fresh-water peaty pool, a few hundred yards from 
high-water mark, on the side of the hills which rise from 
Loch Eribol, and on the west side of the loch. It is an 
inlet of the sea, about sixteen miles to the east of Cape 
Wrath, in the north coast of Sutherland.” The same 
gentleman had previously recorded its existence in the 
neighbourhood of Edinburgh. In England, in addition to 
the first recorded locality in which it was discovered by 
Mr. Baker; my relative, Mr. James Salter, found it plen- 
tiful in a pond near Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, from 
whence | have since received numerous specimens from 
Dr. Bell Salter, of that place, who obtained them from a 
pond at Brading ; and the former gentleman has informed 
me that he has found it in tolerable plenty ‘“‘in a pond 
