1. 8A.LAMANDBA. 2. CHI0GL08SA. 5 



3. Salamandra caucasica*. 

 Exaeretus caucasicus, Waga, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1876, p. 326. 



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

 which do not meet in front, and extend a good deal beyond the line 

 of the choanse. Head depressed, slightly longer than broad, the 

 greatest width at angles of jaws ; snout rounded; nostrils equally 

 distant from the orbit and the tip of the snout ; eye large, promi- 

 nent ; no labial lobes. Body much elongate, four and a half times 

 the length of the head. Limbs weak ; fingers and toes moderate, 

 depressed, free ; the adpressed fore limb not quite reaching the 

 adpressed hind limb; carpal and tarsal tubercles indistinct. Tail 

 much longer than head and body. Yent as in S. maculosa. Skin 

 smooth, minutely tuberculated on the back ; gular fold distinct (?) ; 

 parotoids distinct, elliptical ; no lateral warts ; thirteen costal grooves. 

 Black ; upper surfaces with round yellow spots arranged rather 

 regularly in two longitudinal series on the back ; beneath with a 

 few greyish dots. 



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Total length 154 millim. 



From snout to cloaca 61 „ 



Head 11 „ 



Width of head 10 „ 



Fore limb 20 „ 



Hind limb 22 „ 



Tail 93 ,. 



Caucasus. 



2. CHIOGLOSSA t. 



Chioglossa, Bocage, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 264, and Rev. Mag. Zool. 

 (2) xvi. p. 249 ; Strauch, Salam. p. 52. 



Tongue large, oval, supported by a protractile median pedicle, 

 free everywhere except on the anterior half of the median line. 

 Palatine teeth in two curved series. No fronto-squamosal arch. 

 Toes five. Tail cylindrical at the base, compressed at the end. 



Spain, Portugal. 



1. Chioglossa lusitanica. 



Chioglossa lusitanica, Bocage, 11. cc, Proc. pi. xxi. ; Bonnaret, Arch. 

 Cosmol. 1867, p. 99, pi. 9 ; Strauch, I. c. ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 64. 



* Described from one specimen sent to the Paris Museum by Dr. Waga. 



t Mr. Cope (Proc. Ac. Philad. 1865, p. 196) bas identified this genus with 

 Neurergus, Cope (ibid. 1862, p. 343) ; but nothing in the description of the 

 unique species N. crocatus, Cope (the habitat of which is not stated), justifies 

 this identification. I rather feel inclined to consider N. crocatus closely 

 related to Molge montana, with which it agrees in the structure of the skull 

 (said to resemble that of M. tnarmorata), in the shape and attachment of the 

 tongue, the arrangement of the palatine teeth, the proportions of the limbs, 

 and the " very broad tarsus." 



