MENOPOM A .Harlan. 
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Genus Menoroma.—Cuaracters. Head large, flat; upper jaw with two con- 
centric series of minute teeth; inner series less extensive and terminating before 
posterior nares; lower jaw with a single series; single spiracle on each side; 
extremities four; fingers four; toes five, all short and palmated. 
MENOPOMA ALLEGHANIENSIS.—Latreille. 
Plate XXXII. 
Cuaracrers. Head very large, broad, flat; mouth large, with thick lips; two 
series of teeth in the upper, and a single series in the lower jaw; body short, pale 
cinereous, with dusky blotches; extremities short; fingers and toes short, more or 
less palmated. 
Synonymes. Salamandra Alleghaniensis, La¢reid/e, Hist. Nat. Rept., tom. ii. p. 253, pl. 1. 
Salamandra Alleghaniensis, Dawdin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. viii. p. 231. 
Molge gigantea, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib. 
Salamandra gigantea, Barton. 
Abranchus Alleghaniensis, Harlan, Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. i. p. 233, pl. 17. 
Menopoma Alleghaniensis, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 87. 
Hellbender, Vulgo. 
Description. The head is large, flat, and broad, with the snout full and 
rounded. The mouth is large, and covered with thick fleshy lips. ‘The tongue 
