SALAMANDKHXE. 3-59 
BATR ACHI A C AU DATA 
SALAMANDRIDJE. 
Gervais x has recorded that A. Lefevre or Lefebvre, who is not to be confounded 
with Theophile Lefebvre of Abyssinian fame, obtained a species of triton in the oasis 
of " Barieh," or more correctly Baharieh. 
Mr. Boulenger, writing in 1882 2 , mentioned that M. F. Lataste had received several 
larvae of a Salamandroid collected near Alexandria by M. Letourneux. 
These are the only two references in zoological literature that mention the presence 
in Egypt of this group of Batrachians. 
I made a most careful search during two successive years for Salamandroids in the 
neighbourhood of Bamleh, and on two or three occasions I employed an intelligent 
Syrian, who used to collect for M. Letourneux, to do the same, but neither I nor he 
ever succeeded in finding any. I went provided with some British newts in alcohol to 
show to the natives, in order to give them some idea of the kind of animal of which I 
was in quest ; but all the agricultural labourers, in the localities I had selected as 
appearing to me to be the most likely spots in which to find Salamandroids, declared 
that they had never seen such animals. This experience, however, should not 
deter others from continuing the search, in view of what has been put on record by 
the foregoing authorities. 
1 Ann. Sc. Nat. (ser. 2) vi. 1836, p. 312. 
2 Cat, Batr. Grad. 1882, p. 106. 
