18 SALAMANDRITL*:. 



Body quadrangular in the male, a well-developed cutaneous i 

 bordering each side ; no dorsal crest ; in the female, the body ne* 

 round. Limbs moderate ; fingers and toes depressed, free ; cai 

 and tarsal tubercles distinct. Tail strongly compressed during 

 breeding-season, and with an upper and lower crest, as long as ( 

 little shorter than head and body ; in the male it ends in a i 

 ment. Skin smooth or rather warty above, smooth beneath ; h 

 with distinct series of pores ; a distinct gular fold. Olive or browi 

 above, variegated with darker ; the vertebral line generally ligl 

 in the female; in the male, the head is minutely speckled v 

 blackish, and the feet are black ; lower surfaces orange, immacuh 

 lower caudal edge orange, with black vertical spots in the male. 



6. $. 



Total length 76 85 miliim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 38 43 „ 



Head 9 10 „ 



Width of head 8 8 „ 



Fore limb 15 17 „ 



Hind limb 15 16 „ 



Tail 38 42 „ 



Moldavia. 

 a-c, d-f. S $ • Moldavia. G. A. Boulenger, Esq. [ 



9. Molge boscae. 



Pelonectes boscai, Lataste, Rev. Intern. Sc. iii. 1879, p. 275 ; Tou 

 ville, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1879, p. 72, pi. 7. 



Triton palmatus, var. boscai, Boettger, Zeitschr. ges. Natuno. (3 

 p. 516. 



maltzani, Boettger, I. c. p. 521 *. 



Fronto-squamosal arch bonj% thick. Palatine teeth in two pc 

 riorly diverging series, forming a A-shaped figure ; these S€ 

 commencing on a line with the choanse. Tongue moderate, s 

 circular, free along the sides and more or less behind. Hes 

 little longer than broad, with a single longitudinal groove, 

 length contained about thrice in the length of the body ; 

 greatest width at anterior corners of eyes ; latter prominent ; si 

 broad, truncate ; labial lobes much developed. Body subquadi 

 gular in the breeding male, nearly round in the female ; no do 

 crest. Limbs moderate ; fingers and toes depressed, free ; ca 

 and tarsal tubercles distinct. Tail strongly compressed during 

 breeding-season, with an upper and lower crest, as long as c 

 little longer than head and body ; in the male the tail ends rai 

 abruptly, and is shortly mucronate. Cloaca of male a longitud 



* Having, through the kindness of my friend Dr. O. Boettger, examinee 

 type specimen (a young tf) in the Senckenberg Museum, I am able to 

 that that species is the same as M. boscce. The larger tongue is a charaoto 

 immaturity, which I have frequently noticed in other species of this genus. 



