3. M0LGE. 13 



processes. Palatine teeth in two series convergent towards front, 

 forming a fo commencing on a line with the choanse. Tongue 

 small, subcircular, the sides free. Head a little longer than 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 ; breeding male with a low 

 straight- edged dorsal crest, which is not interrupted on 1he pelvic 

 region. Limbs moderate; fingers and toes free, depressed, short, 

 scarcely longer in the male than in the female ; two small carpal 

 and tarsal tubercles. 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. Skin more or 

 less distinctly tuberculate on upper surfaces, smooth beneath ; head 

 and parotoid region with distinct pores ; a distinct gular fold. 

 Upper parts brown, blackish, greyish, or purplish, uniform or 

 marbled with darker ; a lateral series of small black spots on whitish 

 ground, this being bordered inferiorly in the breeding male by a 

 sky-blue band ; dorsal and caudal crests white, with round black 

 spots ; fingers and toes with black annuli ; belly orange or red, 

 immaculate ; throat frequently black-dotted ; the lower edge of the 

 female's tail orange, with round black spots. 



tf. ?• 



Total length 83 104 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 43 52 „ 



Head 10| 11 n 



Width of head 9^ 10 „ 



Fore limb 17 17 „ 



Hind limb 17 17 „ 



Tail 40 52 „ 



North and Central France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzer- 

 land, Austria, North Italy. 



,a-b. $, Belgium. Dr. A. Giinther [P.]. 



c, d-e. S $ • Alps. 



f-h. c? . Federn See, S. Germany. Dr. A. Giinther [P.]. 



i~k. c? , with gills. Lombardy. Milan Museum [E.]. 



5. Molge vittata. 



Ommatotriton vittatus, Gray, Cat. p. 29. 

 Triton vittatus {Gray), Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 305; Guei-in, Icon. 



R. A. p. 17, pi. 28. f. 2; Duges, Ann. Sc. Nat. (3) xvii. p. 271; 



Bum. 8j- Bibr. p. 144 ; Strauch, Salam. p. 50 ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. 



p. 35 ; Lataste, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 359. 

 Lissotriton palmipes, var., Bell, Brit. Rept. p. 140. 



punctatus, var., Bell, I. c. 2nd edit. p. 151. 



Triton ophryticus, Berthold, Gotting. Nachr. 1846, p. 189 ; Strauch, 



I. c. p. 47, pi. i. f . 3 ; Steindachn. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiv. 



1874, p. 480. 

 Ommatotriton vittatus, Cooke, Our Reptiles, p. 169, pi. 10. 



