3. MOLGE. 



23 



-n. 2 & yg- 



5 and breeding $ 

 with gills. 



S. Carolina. 

 S. Carolina. 

 N. America. 

 N. America. 



Dr. Harlan [P.]. 



Edw. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 

 Prof. St. George Mivart [P.]. 



14. Molge montana. 



Molge platycephala, part., Gravenh. Delic. p. 84. 



Megapterna montana, Sain, Nuov. Giorn. Tosc. xxxvii. p. 211 ; Bona}). 



Faun. Ital. ; Bedriaga, Zool. Anz. 1882, p. 45, and Arch.f. Nat. xlix. 



p. 127, pis. 3-5. 

 Euproctus platycephalus, part., Bonap. 1. c. ; De Betta, Atti 1st. 



Venet. (5) v. 

 montanus, Giglioli, An. Mus. Genov. xiii. p. 599 ; Bedriaga, 



Zool. Anz. 1879, p. 451 ; Camerano, Zool. Anz. 1881, p. 183. 

 platycephalus ?, Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 305. 



Fronto-squamosal arch ligamentous ; frontals with distinct orbital 

 processes. Palatine teeth in two series, parallel, and in contact 

 in their anterior half, divergent behind, thus forming a ^-shaped 

 figure ; these series commencing on a line with the choanae. Tongue 

 rather large, subcircular, attached along the median line, slightly free 

 behind, protractile. Head rather large, depressed, longer than broad, 

 its length contained thrice ( cT ) or thrice and a half ( $ ) in the length 

 of the body ; the greatest width of head at posterior corners of eyes ; 

 snout rounded ; no labial lobes. Body rounded ; no dorsal crest. 

 Limbs moderate ; fingers and toes short, depressed ; tarsal and carpal 

 tubercles indistinct ; male with a much developed, rounded dila- 

 tation of the fibulum. Tail a little shorter than head and body, 

 compressed, ending in a point. Vent generally conical, directed 

 backwards, with circular opening ; sometimes (?) a longitudinal 

 slit, the borders of which are scarcely swollen. Skin finely tuber- 

 cular above, smooth beneath ; sides of head with distinct pores ; 

 on each side of the neck a large well-defined parotoid gland ; no 

 gular fold. Brown, immaculate, or variegated with darker and 

 lighter above and speckled with whitish beneath ; sometimes a light 

 vertebral line. 



6- $• 



Total length 114 108 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 56 58 „ 



Head 14 13 „ 



Width of head 11 10 „ 



Fore limb 18 18 „ 



Hind limb 21 20 „ 



Tail 58 50 „ 



Corsica. 



a-e. <3 $ , hgr., Lago d'Argento, Monte Prof. Giglioli [E.]. 



& larva?. Cinto (6000 feet). 



f-g. Yg. & larva. Corsica. Dr. J. v. Bedriaga [E.]. 



h-i. Yg. & larva. Corsica. G. A. Boidenger, Esq. [P.]. 



