3. MOLGE. 9 



Triton marmoratus, Bonap. I. c. 



bibronii, Bell, I. c. p. 129. 



Hemisalamandra cristata, Duges, Ann. Sc. Nat. (3) xvii. p. 262. 

 Triton cristatus, var. icterica, Reichenb. Nov. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. 

 xxxii. 1865, pi. 1. 



No fronto-squamosal arch ; frontals without or with very indi- 

 stinct orbital processes. Palatine teeth in two nearly straight 

 parallel series, commencing on a line with the choanae, or a little in 

 front of these ; the series generally approximating in front, hut 

 very seldom uniting. Tongue small, elliptic, the lateral borders 

 free. Head as long as broad, or a little longer ; its length con- 

 tained about four times in the female, thrice and a fourth to thrice 

 and a half in the male, in the length of the body ; the greatest 

 width of head at angles of jaws ; snout rounded, very convex ; 

 labial lobes much developed during the breeding-season. Body 

 rounded ; a very high deeply-toothed dorsal crest in the breeding 

 male, commencing between the eyes, abruptly sinking on pelvic 

 region ; a longitudinal groove in the female. Limbs moderate ; 

 fingers and toes free, depressed, rather slender in the male, shorter 

 in the female ; two small carpal and tarsal tubercles, the inner fre- 

 quently indistinct. Tail as long as, or a little shorter than, head 

 and body, ending in a point, strongly compressed during the 

 breeding-season, and with an upper and lower crest, the former 

 being very high, and generally denticulated in the male. Skin 

 more or less strongly tuberculate above and beneath ; head and 

 parotoid region with distinct pores ; a series of pores between axilla 

 and groin ; a strong gular fold. Brown, blackish, or olive above, 

 with more or less distinct black spots ; sides with white punctu- 

 lation ; the breeding male's head elegantly marbled with black and 

 white ; female sometimes with a yellow vertebral line ; orange 

 beneath, spotted or marbled with black ; fingers and toes yellow, 

 with black annuli ; breeding male with a silvery-white band along 

 the side of the tail ; female with the lower edge of the tail orange, 

 immaculate. 



6. $. 



Total length 130 145 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 65 80 



Head 14 15 



Width of head 12 14 



Pore limb 25 24| 



Hind limb 27 2H 



Tail 65 65 



Great Britain, North and Central Prance, Belgium, Holland, 

 Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Greece, Turkey, 

 Russia eastwards to Transcaucasia. 



a. $ > w i tn g'iU 8 - Suffolk. Dr. Woodward [P.], 



b-c <$. Near London. Dr. J. E. Gray [P.J. 



d-e. 2 & yg. Bayswater. R. Latham, Esq. " 



f, g-i, k-m. Larvae & yg. Cobhani. Dr. W. E. Leach 



[P.]. 

 [P.J. 



