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{yim and .specimuiis iVoiii near tlie Kanawha River, in soiitliwcstoni 

 Virginia, in the iMiihi(U'l|>hia Academy Museum, the Smithsonhm con- 

 tains tlie following: 



Di'smtii/iialliiiH iiiyni Green. 



eiit..l()^iio NiuiiIh'v 



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Locality. 



WluMico aiiil liow 

 olilaiijril. 



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4 AhlM'villi'.S. (• ■ 1>1-.''- r-. liaiiiilt. 



•> (iilcs Cimiitv, Vi\ K. D.Odiii'. 



1 I Wyllio (.'oiiiitv, V;i <"'>1. M..Mil)(Piialcl. 



SALA.MANDKIJJ.K.* 



Oiiiy PioccL'd. Zool. Soc. London, 18.")H, p. 142. Cope, Jouni. Ac. Phil., 



iscr), p. 107. 



Noethinoid bone. Palatine.s with i)o.sterior separate processes e\. 

 tending over tlie parasphenoid, bearinjj; teeth on their inner margins. 

 Prel'rontals and pterygoids present. Parietal entirely separated from 

 jtrefroiitals by broad frontals. Orbitosphenoid continent with prootie. 

 No d(Mitigeroiis plates on the paraspheuoid. No postfronto s(piamosal 

 ar:'.h. The ceratohyal free, connected with the (piadrate by liganienf. 

 Carpus and tarsus osseous. Vertebne opisthoctelous. No otoglossal 

 cartilage. 



The hyoid apparatus in this family is like that of the IMethodontidie. 

 There is a hyi)ohyal on each side, of the anterior extremity of the basi 

 branchial which does not irticul.itc! with the ceratohyal. In Triturus, 

 Salainandra, and IlemisalamaiidiM, it is short 'Mate 30, (ig. S) : while 

 in Chioglossa it is recurved posteriorly, passing under the ceratohyal 

 of each side, and almost reaching tlu basibranchial again near the point 

 of origin of the ceratol)ranchi;il (Plate 30, fig. 9). It thus forms a nearly 

 complete ci'ch', suj)i)orting the circumference of the tongue. This 

 circle has the same function as that in Amblystoma, but is of diiVerciil 

 homologicjal value. Api)ropriately to this functional resemblance to 

 the American forms, the proximate extremity of the ceratohyal is at 

 tached to the distal extremity of the suspeihsoriiim, but by ligament. 

 In ITemisalamandra, on the other hand, it is attached to the pwri nal 

 l)artof the same by ligament, thus furnishing a condition intermediatei 

 between the types of (Miioglossa and of Dieinyctylus. 



This family is condned to tlie Old World. It embraces the following 

 genera: 



L Miixillary and pti'rv},'()id Ijones .scpaiiite, the fornier not rearliinj; iiiiadratc. 

 <f. No liKUUientoiiH postfronto Hiiuaniosal areli. 



Tonj;U(^ Im^jc, fii'c. except 011 tlic .anterior lialf of Hie nit'dijin line; fcclli in 

 two loniritiidinal t iirved Hcrii-H <'htoiihni>«i, 



Ton^iU! lari^e, scarcely free, at edfre.s ; (cetli in two ionj{iti»dinal cnrveiU;e- 

 ries Saldiiiaiitlni. 



Ton^^ue .small, not fr(!e; teetli in two stiaij^lit, p trallel Heries.. Iliminalanuiiidva. 



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