34 SALAMANDRIDJE. 



8. SALAMANDRELLA. 



Salamandrella, Dybowsky, Verh. zool.-bot. Qes. Wien, 1870, p. 237. 

 Isodactylium, Strauch, Salam. p. 55. 



Tongue large, elliptical, lateral borders free, anterior border 

 slightly free. Palatine teeth in two series converging backwards, 

 meeting in an acute angle, with two short recurved branches in front, 

 thus forming a ^-shaped figure. Toes four. Tail compressed. 



Eastern Siberia. 



1. Salamandrella keyserlingii. 



Salamandrella keyserlingii, Dybowsky, I. c. pi. 7. 

 Isodactylium schrenckii, Strauch, I. c. p. 56, pi. 2. f. 1. 



Median branches of palatine teeth slightly curved, with the con- 

 vexity outwards ; recurved branches directed backwards. Head 

 moderately depressed, longer than broad ; snout rounded ; eyes 

 rather large, prominent ; no labial lobes. Body slightly depressed, 

 thrice and two thirds to four times and a third the length of the head. 

 Limbs rather short, not meeting when adpressed against the body ; 

 fingers and toes rather short, depressed, free ; carpal and tarsal 

 tubercles indistinct. Tail as long as, or shorter than the head and 

 body, strongly compressed, keeled, the end rounded. Cloaca a 

 longitudinal slit with swollen borders, subspherical. Skin smooth ; 

 twelve or thirteen costal grooves, extending across the belly; a 

 median dorsal groove ; parotoids large, flat, behind the angle of the 

 jaws ; a groove from the eye to the gular fold, which is strongly 

 marked. Brown, lighter beneath ; median zones of body immaculate, 

 bordered by an undulous blackish line ; a blackish vertebral line ; 

 sides with small dark spots. 



Total length 95 126 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 52 63 „ 



Head 11 12 



Width of head 9 9± „ 



Pore limb 13 16 „ 



Hind limb 15 18 „ 



Tail 43 63 



Ussuri and Schilka Rivers ; Lake Baikal. 



a. 6. River Schilka. St. Petersburg Museum 



[E.]. 

 b Several spec: 8,2, Lake Baikal. Warsaw Museum [E.]. 



&yg- 



c-d. 2 • Lake Baikal. Godeffroy Museum. 



2. Salamandrella wosnessenskyi. 

 Isodactylium wosnessenskyi, Strauch, I. c. p. 58, pi. 2. f. 2. 

 Yery closely allied to the preceding, from which it differs in 



