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SALAMANDRID^. 



tance between the anterior corners of eyes. Tongue large, free in 

 the posterior half of its extent. Habit very slender. Head very 

 small, longer than broad ; snout rounded ; eyes rather large. Body 

 cylindrical, much elongate, four to five times the distance from 

 snout to gular fold. Limbs very weak ; fingers and toes very short, 

 latter webbed at the base, with slightly swollen tips, inner rudi- 

 mental : no carpal or tarsal tubercles. Tail generally about as 

 long as head and body, cylindrical. Anal opening longitudinal, the 

 borders not swollen. Skin smooth ; parotoids indistinct ; a distinct 

 gular fold ; sixteen to eighteen costal grooves. Greyish or brownish 

 above, with or without a broad reddisb-brown, black-edged longi- 

 tudinal band ; belly greyish, speckled with brown. 



d. 2. 



Total length 82 95 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 43 46 



Head 7| 7| 



Width of head 6 6 



Fore limb 8 8 



Hind limb 10 9£ 



Tail 39 49 



East of the United States ; Canada. 



a, b. d". 

 c-e. rf 2 ■ 

 /-<• c?2. 

 k-l, m-p. tf 2 . 

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 y-z. 2. 



New York. 

 Ohio. 



N. America. 

 N. America. 

 N. America. 

 N. America. 



Edw. Doubleday, Esq. [P.], 

 T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. 



Prof. St, George Mivart [P.]. 



16. BATRACHOSEPS. 



Hemidactylium, Tschudi, Batr. p. 94; Gray, Cat. p. 41 ; Cope, Pmc 



Ac. Philad. 1869, p. 99 ; Strauch, Salam. p. 75. 

 Batrachoseps, Bonap. Faun. Ital. ; Gray, 1. c. p. 42 ; Cope, I. c. p. 0* : 



Stravch, I. c. p. 84. 

 Desmodactylus, Dum. 8f Bibr. ix. p. 117. 



Tongue oval, attached along the median line, more or less free 

 behind. Palatine teeth in a chevron-shaped series behind the 

 choanae ; parasphenoid teeth in two elongate patches. Toes four. 



North America. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



13 costal grooves ; belly yellowish, black- 

 spotted 



1 8 costal grooves ; belly uniform yellowish 



20 costal grooves ; belly black 



20 costal grooves ; fore limb not reaching 



imgle of mouth ; belly brown 4. attenuates, p. (id 



1 . scutatus, p. 59. 



2. pacijicus, p. 59. 



3. niyriventris, p. 60. 



