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to the orbits ; body and tail yellowish brown above ; salmon color with a tinge of 

 yellow at the sides ; internal nares very large ; body long, cylindrical ; tail rounded 

 at base, compressed laterally, longer than body. Length 6 1 inches. 

 Habitat. — Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. 1 specimen. 



BATRACHOSEPS, Ch. Bonap.— (Fauna Italica.) 



Char. — Tongue bolitoglossal, supported upon a long and narrow pedicle ; two bunches 

 of palatine teeth, each commencing just behind the posterior opening of the nostrils 

 and on a line with its internal border. Two rows of sphenoidal teeth separated from 

 the first by an interspace without teeth ; head very short, eyes prominent, skin smooth, 

 body and tail elongate, slender, roundish, plaited on the sides, limbs slender, far apart ; 

 toes 4 — 4, short, slender, free. 



Remarks. — This genus differs from Salamandrina, which has also 4 fingers and 4 

 toes, in the arrangement of the teeth and shape of head and form of tongue, and from 

 Hemidactylium, which has also 4 fingers and 4 toes, in the shape of the head and es- 

 pecially in the mode of attachment and shape of the tongue. 



BATRACHOSEPS ATTENUATES. 



Char. — " Blackish brown ; back and upper part redder, with a black dorsal line 

 and diagonal cross lines ; body and tail elongate, slender, round ; feet very small, 

 thin ; toes free." — Gray. Length 3 inches 7 lines ; tail 2 inches 1 line. 



Habitat. — San Francisco. One specimen in Mus. Acad., Bonap. collection, pre- 

 sented by Dr. Wilson. 



BATRACHOSEPS QUADRIDIGITATUS. 



Char. — Pale straw color, with a few minute dark brown spots or vertebral lines ; 

 flanks marked with an irregular series of dark brown spots ; abdomen bluish silvery 

 white ; head large, tail very long. — Holbrook. Length 3 inches 4 lines. 



Habitat. — South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 



Habits terrestrial ; found under decayed or fallen trees ; comes out only after rains 

 or in the dusk of the evening ; feeds on insects. — Dr. Holbrook. 2 specimens in Mus. 

 Acad., presented by Dr. Jones. 



GEOTRITON,* Ch. Bonaparte. 



Char. — Tongue bolitoglossal ; two patches of palatine teeth, one behind each of the 

 internal nares, the convexity .presenting forward ; several rows of sphenoidal teeth, 

 separated from the palatine by a considerable interval, (about a line,) and from each 



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