150 DR. J. DE BEDRIAGA ox THE PrBENi;.\.N NEWX. [Feb. 19, 



Crustacea. 



..1-24. 1833. ~ 



Wiegni. Arch. 1842 (ii.), 

 p. 317, note, and 1835 (i.), 

 p. 5. 



See signatures 7. 17, 19, 28, 

 42 & 50, and Wiegm. Arch. 

 1851 (ii.), p. 393. 



Oommentatio, pp. vii-xvi, April 1850 ; Proefatio, pp. iii-xxxi, 1849. 



4. On the Pyrenean Newt, Molge aspera, Duges. 

 By Dr. J. de Bedriaga, C.M.Z.S. 



[Eeceived February 13, 1895.] 

 (Plates V. & VI.) 



Synonymy, 



Hemitriton asper, cinereus, riu/osus, puncttdatus, hibroni, Duges, 

 "Kecherches Zoologiques sur les Urodeles de Prance," Ann. des Sc. 

 Nat. 3' serie, Zool. t. xvii. 1852, p. 253, pi. 1 b. figs. 1-3, 16-22. 



Hemitriton asper, v. Bedriaga, " Beitr. z. Kenntniss d. Ampbibiea 

 u. Eeptilien d. Fauna v. Corsika," Arch. £. Naturgesch. xlix. Jahrg. 

 1 Bd., S. 124, Taf. iv. figs. 18-21, 23, 28, 31-37. 



Triton pyrencvus, rugosus, cinereus, repandus, bibroni, pundicida- 

 tus, Diimeril et Bibron, Erpetologie generale, t. ix. pp. 139, 150- 

 154, Atlas, pi. 1U6. figs. 2, 3, pi. 102. fig. 4. 



? Euproctus rusconii, part., Dumeril et Bibron, ibid. p. 158. 



Calotriton punctv.latvs. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 139. 



Triton platycephalm,^^vt., Strauch, "Eevision d. Salamandriden- 

 Gattungen," Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. de St. Petersbourg, 7^ serie, 

 t. xvi. ; Sehreiber, Herpetologia Europaea, S. 54 (Braunschweig, 

 1875). 



Euproctus pyrenceus, Lataste, in Eevue Internationale des 

 Sciences, 1878, pp. 495, 496. 



Molge aspera, Boalenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia 

 in the Collection of the British Museum, pp. 8, 24 (London 1882) ; 

 V. Bedriaga, " Synopsis d. em-op. Molge," Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 1893, S. 214. 



External Character a. 



This species is allied to Molge ivalili, having like it a very much 

 developed cartilaginous internarial wall, a stout and clumsy body 

 covered with rugous tubercular skin, free toes, and a crestless 

 back. The head resembles that of the Italian M. cristata var. platy- 

 cephala, but it is much more depressed ; it is longer than broad, its 

 greatest width at the posterior corners of the eyes. Snout rather 



