518 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
specimens taken very much at random, but apparently 
all adult. 
Male,—total length 140 mm., to cloaca 71. 
” ” 138 ,, » = 03. 
” » 138 ,, » «69. 
” ? 137 ” ” 74, 
. Fi DNS dames an 73. 
. as 133; 73 op 68. 
5 5 182 ,, re 69. 
” ” 132 2”? ” 17 i 
” ey 131 ” 3” 70, 
” ” 127 ” 99 67. 
” ” 124 9 ” a 
” ”? 123 Bd ” Tit 
ne “5 UPN s5 ss 64. 
” 2 117 ” ” av; 
_ 33 Hl Oe ers Ap 63. 
s eas 1 as 59 60. 
Female, ah 1S sess 3 mie 
? ” 139 ” ” = 
” 29. 137 3 » 71. 
:, A ey Pes 5 —— 
9 ” 129 » ? a 
vs 53 L2AGT a 55 + 66. 
Having had a few examples weighed, I give the results, 
although perhaps of little value in the absence of other 
information regarding the specimens :—three males, 10°675, 
84, and 7°6 orammes respectively; three females, 9:4, 8°7, 
and 63 grammes. Cooke, quoting from Higginbottom’s 
observations, gives 134 grains (8°7 grammes) as the average 
weight of the species at the end of the fourth year. 
MOLGE VULGARIS (Linn.). SmMooTH NEwrT. 
This pretty species—the Jzssotriton punctatus of Bell’s 
“ British Reptiles ”—occupies in the district much the same 
status as the preceding, the two very frequently occurring in 
the same pond or pool. The present is, however, in my 
experience distinctly the more abundant.” I have often, 
when a boy, captured it in the Braid marshes, and on warm 
days during spring and summer in more recent years, have 
often watched it in these same habitats—and admired it too, 
for the male during the breeding season is really a handsome 
