it 
46. Tapes cineREA, Desh. T. testa ovato-transversd, inequi- 
laterali, depressd, extremitatibus obtusa, grised, maculis fuscis, 
albo subarticulatis, in latere postico radium unicum formanti- 
bus, longitudinaliter et inequaliter striata; striis in medio 
depressis, simplicibus, antice posticeque crassioribus, striis trans- 
versis, brevibus, decussatis ; umbonibus minimis obliquis, postice 
granulosis, acutis, approximatis ; lunuld angusta, lanceolata, in 
medio concaviusculd ; valvis intus squalide lutescentibus ; sinu 
pallit lato, brevi, obtusissimo. : 
Hab. ? Coll. Cuming. 
2. On a New Species or SALAMANDER FROM CALIFORNIA. 
By J. E. Gray, Pa.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 
(Reptilia, Pl. VII.) 
Mr. Henry Gurney most kindly sent to the Zoological Society for 
exhibition some Reptiles, from Monterey in California, with the de-, 
sire that the specimens should afterwards be placed in the British 
Museum. Among the rest was a very fine and large specimen of a 
Triton, which has much the external appearance of the large white- 
spotted Ambyostoma Caroline of the eastern part of the United States 
of America. On more minute examination and comparison, it proved 
to be quite distinct ; and as I do not find any description of it in any 
of the American papers on these animals, I have sent a comparative 
description of the two species. 
1. AmByostoma Caro.in#&, Gray, Cat. Amph. B. M. 35. 
Brown; small spot over orbit, large spot on each side the occiput, 
on each leg near the joint, and a series down each side of the back 
and tail, white; palatine teeth in a short, nearly straight line, be- 
tween and not reaching to the internal nostrils, and with a separate 
small group of teeth behind each internal nostril. 
2. AMBYOSTOMA CALIFORNIENSE. 
Black ; sides of lips, lower part of neck, body and tail, and limbs, 
with large white spots; palatine teeth in an elongated angular trans- 
verse line, bent forwards in the middle and extending to the outer 
edge of the hinder part of the internal nostril. 
Hab. California, Monterey, in a well (Gurney). 
A smaller white spot on each side of the back, not symmetrical ; 
the one on the right side being much in front of the other. 
Ambyostoma punctulatum, Gray, Cat. Amph. B. M. 37, has the 
tongue free on the side, and is nearly allied to the genus Plethodon : 
the palatine teeth are very indistinct, not forming a regular ridge. 
