144 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Strauch’s Triton longipes. 
Dimensions. 
T. microlepis. TT. Blythit. 
pe = | ees [| 
Ad. Ye. Ad. Yg. 
millim. millim. millim. millim. 
Total lengths-ipacret-cloctaeitss ns 150 80 163 78 
+ » (without caudal) .... 127 66 140 64 
Depthiot Pod youn ors tice: eet 64 32 59 29 
benothvotthedd! “Sit. se cee tee 44 26 48 26 
Diametér of eye ...... tae cre toresees 12 8 13 8 
Length of ist dorsal spine........ 9 5 9 4} 
ni ond.y 5; Nite etn cane 17 10 uy 9 
. Brd_,, Gee eRe Cae Foe 14 25 P 
. Ath 4, San lace 26 16 26 13 
3 Stee |, et Ee 25 13 25 13 
Ist anal W escias 8 arco OL 13 6 13 6 
i, 2nd ,, sien ioe ais oreo 17 9 19 10 
H ord ,, ssoereiialuameatare 18 11 25 14 
XXII.— On Strauch’s Triton longipes. 
By G. A. BouLENGER. 
In my revision of the newts, published in 1882*, I expressed 
the opinion that Strauch’s Zriton longipes t from Astrabad, 
N. Persia, should probably be considered a variety of 
Molge cristata, agreeing with var. Karelindi, Strauch, except 
in the more elongate digits. ‘I‘his view was endorsed shortly 
afterwards by Camerano f{, who referred some Italian speci- 
mens (from the Gran Sasso) to subsp. longipes, not, however, 
without some hesitation. [am now in a position, thanks to 
the kindness of Dr. F. 8. Monticelli, who sent me numerous 
specimens of J. cristata from near Naples, to state that 
7. longipes represents merely an individual variation of Molge 
cristata, var. Karelinii. Among the Naples specimens there 
is one, a male post nuptias, which is in every respect 
referable to 7’. longipes ; its digits are extremely slender and 
elongate, all the fingers except tie first extending beyond the 
snout when the fore limb is stretched forwards, and the 
longest toe reaching the elbow when the limbs are pressed 
against the body. As there exists in the same locality every 
passage between such a specimen and a normal JZ. cristata, 
* Cat. Batr. Grad. s, Caud. 1882. 
+ Rey. Salam. Gatt., Mém. Ac. St. Pétersb. xvi. no. 4, 1870, p. 44. 
t P. Z. S. 1884, p. 423, and Mon. Anf. Urod. Ital., Mem. Acc. Tor. (2) 
xxxvi. 1884. 
