CH. VIIl] FROGS, TOADS, AND NEWTS 301 



in the female it is uniformly orange. The eggs are said 

 to be laid in rows occasionally. The frontal bone is 

 connected with the squamosal by a ligamentous arch. 

 Abundant in all clear ponds and ditches. 



(3) The Palmate Newt or Webbed Newt (Molge 

 palmata, Lissotriton palmipes). Length 3 inches or less ; 

 colour brown or olive with small dark spots dorsally; 

 ventral surface with orange-yellow median stripes with 

 a few black dots. Dorsal crest of male not serrated or 

 festooned : in colour, as also the hind feet, black. Ventral 

 edge of tail orange in female, dark grey in male. Hind 

 feet of male webbed during breeding season. The tail of 

 the male terminates in a slender filament, devoid of fin- 

 like expansions, which is used in a prehensile mariner, 

 being twisted round stems of aquatic plants. This is the 

 rarest of our newts, but has been reported from many 

 different parts of England and Scotland. Apparently 

 it chiefly frequents moorland and heathy swamps or 

 ditches. I find it in S.-W. Surrey in the same localities 

 as the Natterjack. 



