1 39 



b. FrontO'temporal arch complete. Lateral line indietinet, 



Harked with a vessel ; ribs enclosed. 



7. Cai.otriton. 



Hemitriton, part, A. Duges. 



Head niul skull rhombic. Eyelids distinct. Skin smooth, with 

 small black-topped conical warts. Tongue oblong. Paratoids none. 



Toes free ; tips black, rather claw-like Vent conical. 



1. CALOTRITON PUNCTULATl 's (skull, fig. 2). B.M! 



Hemitritonpunctulatue, A. Dugcs, Ann. Sci. Nat. xyH.265. t.l 13. 



f. 1, 2 ; skull, Dugcs, /. c. f. 3 k 18. 



Triton puncticidatus, Efp. Gen. ix. 152. t. 106. f. 3 ; skull, t. 102. 

 f.4. 



8. Euproctus. 



Hemitriton, part, A. Dugcs. 



Head and skull rhombic, depressed. Tongue oblong. Paratoids 

 none. Skin smooth, with scattered small rounded black conic warts. 

 Cloaca produced, conic. Lateral lines of pores none. 



1. ElJPROCTUS KuSCONII. B.M. 



Hemitriton asper, skull, A. Dugcs, Ann. Sci. Nat. wii. t. 113. 

 f. 21, 22. 



//. einereus, skull, Duges, /. c. f. 1-1, 15 ; //. ruffoeue, skull, /. c. 

 t. 1. f. 16, 17, and //. Bitronii, skull, t. 1. f. 19, 20, are evidently 

 very nearly allied, if not all the same species. 



9. Lophints. 



Bodv smooth. Palatine teeth in two separate series. Orbit in 

 palate small. Fore toes slender, rery unequal ; the bind toes broad, 



webbed on each side, the two inner conic. Hack three-ridged. 



Crest ot male continued. Lateral lines with distant single pores. 

 Tail of male suddenly truncated before the apex, ending in a fila- 

 ment. 



I. LOPHINUS PALMATUS. B.M. 



Selys-Longch. Faun. Bclg. t. 0. f. 1, 2, good ; skull, Duges, /. e. 

 t. l.f.27, 28; 



Triton, Wooleyj Baker & Debs, Zoologist, 1848, 21 19, &c 



Triton tninor, Higginbottom, Ann. & Mag. N. II. 1853, \ii. 

 1. 16. f. 8, !i. 



TAeeotriton palmatue, Bell, Britiah Reptiles, set I edit. 1849, 



p. 154 t not 01 first edition). 



"In the season of reproduction the tail of the male i^ suddenly 

 truncated before the apes and terminated in ■ slender filament 3 lines 

 m length. The hind feel perfectly palmated, all the toes united bj 



