O SALAMANDRICE. 



Palatine series forming two 5 -shaped figures, the branches of 

 which meet in front, on a line with the choanas. Head depressed, 

 longer than broad, its greatest width at posterior corners of eyes ; 

 snout short, rounded ; eyes rather large, prominent ; no labial lobes. 

 Body slender, cylindrical, about four times as long as the head ; no 

 dorsal crest. Limbs weak ; the anterior limb adpressed does not 

 reach the adpressed hind limb ; fingers and toes moderately elongate, 

 depressed, free ; no carpal nor tarsal tubercles. Tail cylindrical in 

 its anterior third, becoming gradually compressed ; no caudal crest ; 

 in the young the length of the tail equals about that of head and 

 body, in the adult it equals once and two thirds or twice that, 

 length. Vent a longitudinal slit, the borders of which are not 

 swollen. Skin smooth, shining ; a strong gular fold extending on 

 each side of the neck and limiting behind the parotoids ; a straight 

 fold from the eye to the latter fold ; sides of trunk with ten or eleven 

 more or less distinct vertical grooves ; a depressed vertebral line ; 

 vertical grooves on the sides of the tail. Dark brown, rather lighter 

 below ; two broad reddish-golden bands along the body, separated 

 by the dark vertebral line ; these bands blend together on the pelvis 

 and continue on the tail. 



Total length 132 millim. 



From snout to cloaca 45 



Head 8| 



Width of head 6| 



Fore limb 11 



Hind limb 12 



Tail 87 



Portugal; N.W. Spain. 



a-c. $ & yg. Coimbra. Prof. Barboza du Bocage [P.]. 



d-e. 2 & yg- Coruna. Sr. Don V. L. Seoane [P.]. 



3. MOLGE. 



Triton (non Linn.), Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 37 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 95 ; 



Gray, Cat. p. 18 ; Dum. 8f Bibr. ix. p. 121 ; Strauch, Salam. p. 34. 

 Molge, Merrem, Tent. p. 185. 



Triturus, Rajinesque, Ann. of Nature, 1820 {fide Baird). 

 Diemyctylus, Bqfin. I. c. 



Notophthalmus, Bqfin. I. c. ; Gray, Cat. p. 22. 

 Oiacurus, Leuckart, Isis, 1821, p. 2G0. 

 Pleurodeles, Michah. Isis, 1830, p. 195 ; Tschudi, I. c. p. 91 ; Gray, 



I. c. p. 17 ; Dum. ty Bibr. p. 71 ; Strauch, I. c. p. 31. 

 Bradybates, Tschudi, I.e. p. 91 ; Gray, I.e. p. 26; Dum. <§• Bibr. 



p. 75 ; Strauch, I. c. p. 32. 

 Cynops, Tschudi, I. c. p. 94 ; Gray, I. c. p. 24. 

 Megapterna, Savi, Nuov. Giorn. Tosc. xxxvii. p. 211. 

 Euproctus, Gene, Syn. Rept. Sa?-d. p. 94 ; Gray, Cat. p. 24 ; Dum. & 



Bibr. p. 157. 

 Glossoliga, Bonap. Faun. Ital. 

 Pelonectes, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. i. p. 33 (name only). 

 Lissotriton, Bell, Brit. Rept. p. 132. 



