3. MOLGE. 17 



female, in the length of the body. Body quadrangular in the breed- 

 ing male, a more or less developed cutaneous fold bordering each 

 side ; a low, entire, vertebral ere3t ; in the female, the body is nearly 

 round, with a low vertebral ridge, as in M. vulgaris. Limbs mode- 

 rate ; fingers and toes depressed, the latter fully webbed in the 

 breeding male ; two small carpal and tarsal tubercles. Tail a little 

 longer than head and body, strongly compressed during the breeding- 

 season, and with an upper and lower crest ; the male's tail truncate 

 and ending in a filament; this filament scarcely distinct in the 

 female. Skin smooth, or nearly so; head with distinct series of 

 pores ; gular fold generally distinct. Upper parts brown or olive, 

 with small darker spots; head with longitudinal dark streaks, the 

 outer (those passing through the eyes) being constant ; in the male, 

 the head is minutely speckled with dark brown, and the dorsal and 

 upper caudal crest and feet are blackish ; lower surfaces not coloured, 

 except the median zone of the belly, which is orange ; a few small 

 blackish dots are generally scattered on the belly ; in ferior caudal 

 erest immaculate, orange in the female, bluish grey in the male ; a 

 series of spots, sometimes confluent, along the upper and lower 

 border of the tail. 



6. ?• 



Total length 72 76 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 32 37 „ 



Head 9 9 „ 



Width of head 7| 8 „ 



Fore limb 15 13£ „ 



Hind limb 15 13 „ 



Tail 40 39 „ 



Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, West 

 Germany, North Spain. 



a. J . Scotland. Dr. Johnson [P.]. 



b-c. $ 2 • Nottingham. W. Higginbottom, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Several spec, 3 <j> . Near Hereford. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Several spec, c? ? • Bridgewater. Mr. Baker [P.]. 

 f-i. <$ . Bridgewater. 



k. tf. Falmouth. — Cocks, Esq. [P.]. 



l-o. J 2 • Near Brussels. G. A. Boulenger, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Molge montandonii. 



Triton montandoni, Bouleng. Bull. Soe. Zool. France, 1880, pp. 37, 

 157, pi. 7. 



Fronto- squamosal arch bony. Palatine teeth in two posteriorly 

 diverging series, forming a A-shaped figure ; these series com- 

 mencing on a line with the choanae. Tongue moderate, oval, free 

 along the sides. Head a little longer than broad, with three distinct 

 longitudinal grooves, its length contained about thrice in the length 

 of the body, the greatest width at posterior corners of eyes ; snout 

 rounded; labial lobes well developed during the breeding-season. 



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