IS/ I.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON A NEW NEWT. 423 



6/5. Attagen minor (Gmel.). 



Pelecanus minor, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1/88, i. p. 5/2. 

 Tachypetes minor, Ibis, 1868, p. 56. 

 Paracel Shoals. One shot at Amoy. 



Note. — In the Chinese Materia Medica (called 'Pun Tsao Kang 

 Muh') I find in the figure of the Fe-seng, or " Flying Beast," a re- 

 markable likeness to the fossil Archceopteryx described by Prof. 

 Owen. I will investigate this question on my present return to China. 

 — R. S. 



2. Description of a new Genus of Newts from Western 



Yunan. By John Anderson, M.D., Curator of the 



Indian Museum, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy, 



Calcutta. 



[Received April 17, 1871.] 



Tylototriton *, n. g. 



Head flat, surrounded by a prominent osseous ridge, with a short 

 longitudinal ridge along the vertex. The bony orbit above the eye 

 similar to that of Cynops, Pleurodeles, Euproctus, and Notophthal- 

 mus. Parotoids large, auriculoid, flattened from above downwards. 

 Along the body a lateral line of equidistant, large, rounded, knob- 

 like, porous, glandular tubercles, terminating at the root of the tail. 

 The second to the fifth epipleural processes and the extremities of the 

 remaining ribs terminate in the knob-like lateral glands. A broad 

 porous vertebral ridge corresponding to the enlarged crests of the 

 dorsal and sacral vertebrae. An obscure line of pores between the 

 axilla and the groin, and a series of larger ones on the head. Skin 

 finely tubercular. Tail as long as the body, laterally compressed, with 

 sharp lower and upper margins. Limbs well developed. Fingers 

 four, toes five. Palatine teeth begin on a line with the internal 

 nostrils, in two ridges meeting in front, but widely divergent behind. 

 Maxillary teeth small, acute, on the inner edge of the jaw. Tongue 

 of moderate size, suborbicular, adherent, and slightly free at the 

 edges. Vertebrae 46. Ribs 16: 13 dorsal, 1 sacral, 2 caudal. 



Tylototriton verrucosus, n. sp. 



The lateral cranial ridge subtriangular ; the median ridge running 

 backwards from the inside of the apex of the triangle, but not reach- 

 ing so far posteriorly as the lateral ridge, the extremities of which 

 curve inwards like a scroll in front of the parotoids. The parotoids 

 slightly concave above, and somewhat resembling the outline of an 

 upturned human ear. The nostrils close to the extremity of the 

 rounded snout, but with a considerable interval between them, 



* rtAwrds, knobbed. 



