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SALAMANDRAD^E. 



convinced that it is to be considered as a variety only of 

 the present species ; there is riot the slightest structural 

 difference between them, they are the same in size and 

 form. It is also, in all probability, the Salamandre cein- 

 turee of Latreille. Its claim to a British locality rests, as 

 Mr. Gray informs me, upon its having been found in the 

 British Museum in a bottle containing other British speci- 

 mens, and marked " England." There is no reason, there- 

 fore, to doubt that they are British, and there is ground 

 for believing that they were taken at no great distance from 

 London. 



Having given my own. reasons for my entire conviction 

 that Triton mttatus of Gray is a variety only of the pre- 

 sent species, I think it right, in justice to Mr. Gray, to add 



