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SALAMANDRIDiE. 



Palatine teeth in two very short series, converging posteriorly, 

 touching the parasphenoid teeth ; latter in two well-separated series, 

 strongly diverging posteriorly. Head small, longer than hroad; 

 snout rounded, without canthus rostralis ; eyes large. Body elon- 

 gate, nearly four times the distance from tip of snout to gular fold. 

 Limbs weak; fingers and toes rather slender, free. Tail longer 

 than head and body, cylindrical, slightly compressed at the end. 

 Skin smooth ; no parotoids ; gular fold strong, strongly arched, with 

 the convexity forwards ; fifteen costal grooves. Light brown ; a 

 dark brown lateral band commencing from the eye. 



Total length 69 millim. 



From snout to cloaca 28 „ 



Head 5 „ 



Width of head 3 „ 



Fore limb 5 „ 



Hind limb 7 „ 



Tail 41 „ 



North Carolina to Florida. 



a. Adult. N.America. Prof. St. George Mivart [P.]. 



2. Manculus remifer. 

 Manculus remifer, Cope, Report Peabody Acad, for 1869, p. 84. 



Differs from the preceding in the following characters: — Parasphe- 

 noid teeth well separated from palatines. Body shorter. Tail 

 shorter, about the length of head and body, compressed, with a low 

 fin in its distal half. Colour black above, and dark brown below ; 

 lower part of the sides of the head, body, and basal third of tail 

 with dusted fine white dots. 



Total length 58 millim. 



From snout to cloaca 30 „ 



Fore limb 5§- „ 



Hind limb 7 „ 



Florida. 



Subfam. D. DESMOQNATHIN&. 



Plethodontidse, part., Gray, Cat. Batr. Orad. 



Desmognathidae, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. 1866, and Proc. Ac. 



Philad. 1869. 

 Thoriidse, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1869. 

 Salamandrida Lechriodonta, part., Strauch, Rev. d. Salam., in Mem. 



Ac. St. Petersb. (7) xvi. no. 4. 



Two genera : — 



Tongue attached along the median line. 19. Desmognathus, p. 77. 



Tongue bolctoid, free all round ; nostrils 



extremely large 20. Thorius, p. 79. 



