3. MOLGE. 11 



This form is intermediate between, and perhaps a hybrid of, M. 

 cristata and marmorata. Some specimens approach the former ; 

 others (and such are those in the British Museum) are nearer the 

 latter. 



Fronto-squamosal arch ligamentous ; frontals with orbital pro- 

 cesses. Palatine teeth forming a /y. Proportions of head and 

 body intermediate between the two last-named species. Dorsal 

 crest high, toothed. Green above, spotted or marbled with brown ; 

 sides, and sometimes lower surfaces, with white punctulation ; female 

 generally with an orange vertebral line ; orange or brownish orange 

 beneath, spotted with black; breeding male with a silvery-white 

 band along the side of the tail. 



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Total length 140 156 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 70 78 „ 



Head 15 15 „ 



Width of head 12| 13 „ 



Pore limb 27 25 „ 



Hind limb 30 26 „ 



Tail 70 78 „ 



N.W. Prance. 



a-b. (S2- Bretagne. Paris Museum [E.]. 



3. Molge marmorata. 



Triton marmoratus, Gray, Cat. p. 20. 

 ? Triton gesneri, Lour. Syn. Rept. p. 38 ; Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 19. 

 Salamandra marmorata, Latr. Hist. Salam. p. 33, pi. 3. f. 2 ; Dand. 



Rept. viii. p. 241. 

 Hemisalamandra marmorata, Duges, Ann. Sc. Nat. (3) xvii. p. 261. 

 Triton marmoratus, Dum. 8f Bibr. p. 135, pi. 106. f. 1 ; De Vlsle, 



Ann. Sc. Nat. (4) xvii. p. 364 ; Strauch, Salam. p. 40 ; Fatio, Vert. 



Suisse, iii. p. 532 ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 43 ; Lataste, Herp. Gir. 



p. 331. 

 Pyronicia marmorata, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 137. 



Pronto-squamosal arch ligamentous ; frontals with distinct orbital 

 processes. Palatine teeth in two series converging towards front, 

 forming a /^, commencing on a line with the choanse. Tongue 

 small, elliptic, free along the sides. Head about as long as broad : 

 its length contained about thrice in the male, about thrice and a 

 half in the female, in the length of the body ; the greatest width of 

 head at eyes ; snout broad, rounded, depressed ; labial lobes well 

 developed during the breeding-season. Body rounded ; breeding 

 male with an elevated straight-edged dorsal crest 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 ; carpal and tarsal tubercles very indi- 

 stinct. Tail as long as, or a little longer than, head and body, ending 

 in a point, strongly compressed during the breeding-season, and 



