554 ON iiATiiAoniANS I'BOM TUB CAUCASUS. [May 5, 



Male specimens (8 in number) have a large compressed dermal 

 tubercle, pointed and directed forwards, on the base of the tail, 

 just above the posterior boi'der of the cloaca. This tubercle, I 

 suggest, may assist in clinging to the female during the pairing. 



Bhiuing black above, with two more or less regular series of 

 round, oval, or elliptical greenish-yellow spots ; blackish brown or 

 dark plumbeous grey beneath, with or without small greyish-white 

 spots or dots ; these small spots constantly present on the throat. 



millim. milliiu. milliin. 



Total length 182 155 142 



Prom snout to cloaca . . 66 63 62 



Head 13 13 12 



Width of head 9-5 9-5 9 



Pore limb 20 21 19 



Hind limb 22 23 22 



Tail 116 92 80 



The lungs are short, as much developed as in S. maculosa. 



The skull is quite typical of a Salamandra, only not so broad as 

 in S. maculosa and S. atra. There are 17 praecaudal and 53 caudal 

 vertebraB, against 16 and 25 or 26 in S. maculosa. 



MoLGE vrrTATA, Gray. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) 



This handsome Newt is now represented in the Museum by a 

 fine series, consisting of 14 specimens from Brusa, Trebizonde, 

 and Borshom in Transcaucasia. The dorsal crest of the males 

 may be deeply toothed, as in M. cristata, which this Newt resembles 

 in the shape of the head, the notch in the crest on the lumbar 

 region, and the long, slender digits. A dermal fold runs along 

 the outer edge of the crus and tarsus in the males. In the Traus- 

 caucasian specimens the vertical black bars on the dorsal crest are 

 of equal breadth ; a whitish band extends along the middle of the 

 muscular portion of the basal tliird of the tail, becoming wavy and 

 broken up further down. 



The following measurements are taken from five specimens from 

 Borshom : — 



d. d. d. 6. ?. 



millim. millim. millim. millim. niilliiii. 



Total length 125 120 119 119 113 



Prom snout to cloaca .... 60 59 00 59 69 



Head 14 14 14 14 13 



Width of head 10 10-5 11 10-5 10 



Pore limb 25 26 25 20 22 



Hand 12 12 11-5 12 9 



Hind limb 28 27 27 28 21 



Poot 14 14 14 14-5 10 



Tail 65 61 59 60 54 



An outline figure of the skull has been given by Alfred Duges 

 in his paper on the Urodeles of Prance, in 1852. Otherwise 

 nothing is known of the osteology of this species. I have there- 



