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white." I have carefully examined the specimens in the 

 British Museum, and am convinced that it is to be con- 

 sidered as a variety only of the present species ; there is not 

 the slightest structural difference between them, they are the 

 same in size and form, and the lip is equally pendulous. 

 This opinion is much confirmed by the circumstance that 

 Latreille describes his palmipes as having the belly white, 

 which was doubtless given from a specimen departing from 

 the usual character of the species, and approaching to the 

 present variety. It is also, in all probability, the Salamandre 

 ceinturee 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 

 specimens, and marked " England." There is no reason, 

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

 for believing that they were taken at no great distance from 

 London. 





