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tail, bordered with black ; sometimes two rows of spots on one side, the left, with a 

 single upper row on the right, and one below, very symmetrically disposed, in the small 

 specimens. 



ELLIPSOGLOSSA, Bum. et Bib. 

 Pseudosalamandra and Htnobius, Tschudi. 



Char. — Tongue oblong, entire, a little more narrow and rounded in front, larger 

 towards the front, oval in form, plicated longitudinally, free at the sides only; palate 

 armed with small teeth, disposed in two longitudinal rows, in contact posteriorly, 

 separated in front, in the form of a V, of which the free extremities are turned out- 

 ward ; two flattened parotids upon the sides of the head and neck ; flanks rounded ; 

 four fingers in front ; five toes, all free, short and without nails or corneous extremities ; 

 tail short, very much compressed, especially at its extremity. — Dum. et Bib. 



ELLIPSOGLOSSA N.EVIA. 



Char. — Body much elongated ; trunk and neck slender, rounded ; tail very much 

 compressed, one-fifth shorter than the body ; color bluish slate grey, with small 

 spots of a lighter color, and marked upon the sides 5 skin smooth above and below. 

 Length . 



Habitat. — Japan. 



ELLIPSOGLOSSA NEBULOSA. 



Char. — " Trunk short and thick ; color yellowish brown, more or less deep, with 

 very fine marblings ; tail much compressed, with generally a yellowish line above 

 and below." — D. & B. Length . 



Habits aquatic ; swims with great facility, so much so us to be taken for a fish. — 

 D. &B. 



Habitat. — Japan. 



HEMIDACTYLIUM,* Tschudi.— Desmodacttlus, Bum. et Bib. 



Char. — Four fingers and four toes ; tongue oval, attached in front and along the 

 middle, more free posteriorly ; two rows of palatine teeth, beginning each on a line 

 with the internal border of the posterior opening of the nares, extending behind it, 

 and converging toward each other, and two rows of sphenoidal teeth, separated from 

 the first by an interspace without teeth, and from each other by a wide interspace, 

 nearly parallel ; fingers and toes united at base by a membrane, that of the fingers 

 and toes short and stout, salamandrine in form, the outer and inner ones very small ; 



s h/uuc one-half: JaKtuMt finger 



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