12 SALAMANDEID^. 



■with an upper and lower crest. Skin more or less strongly tuber- 

 culate above and beneath ; head ^.nd parotoid region with distinct 

 pores ; a series of pores between axilla and groin ; a strong gular 

 fold. Green above, marbled with black ; dorsal and upper caudal 

 crest with vertical, alternately black and white bars ; female with 

 an orange vertebral line ; a silvery-white band along the side of the 

 tail, most distinct in the breeding male ; fingers and toes green, with 

 black annuli ; lower surfaces brown or greyish, with more or less 

 distinct darker spots, punotulated with white. (This punotulation 

 is absent in specimen i, the lower surfaces being beautifully black- 

 and-white marbled.) 



d. ?. 



Total length 131 133 miUim. 



Prom snout to cloaca .... 62 68 „ 



Head 15 15 „ 



• Width of head 14| 15 „ 



Pore limb 28 27 „ 



Hind limb 29 27 „ 



Tail 69 65 „ 



France, Spain, Portugal. 



a-b. <J. Fontainebleau. Gr. A. Boulenger, Esq. [P.]. 



c-d, e. 5 . Nantes. 



/. Yg. Montpellier. 



ff-h. (J . Park in Palace-grounds H. O. Forbes, Esq. [P.], 



of Quiluz. 



i. (3. Oporto. 



A-Z. 2 & yg- Oporto. Col. Owen, K.O.A. [P.]. 



m. $ . Oporto. E. Allen, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Molge alpestris. 



Triton ? alpestris, GVay, Cat. p. 21. 



Triton alpestris, £aur. 8yn. Rept. pp. 38, 142, pi. 2. f. 4 ; Sturm, 

 Beutschl. Faun. ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 95 ; Bonap. Faun. Hal; Bum. ^ 

 Bibr. p. 146 ; Be Betta, Mem. 1st. Venet. xi. p. 540 ; Fatio, Bibl. 

 Univ. 1864, p. 275 ; Leydig, Arch. f. Naturg. 1868, p. 198 ; Straueh, 

 Salam. p. 49 ; Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 541, pi. 3 ; Be Betta, Fawn. 

 Ital, Mett. Anf. p. 87 ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 38. 



wurfbainii, Laur. I.e. -p. 38. 



aalamandroides, Laur. I. c. p. 40. 



Salamandra cincta, Batr. Salam. p. 52, pi. 6. f. 5 : Baiid. Bent viii 

 p. 259. ir 7 r r ■ 



rubriventris. Baud. I. o. p. 239, pi. 98. f. 1. 



alpestris, Beohst., Laa4p. ii. p. 260 : Schneid. Hist. Amvh 



p. 71. ^ 



ignea, Beohst. I. c. p. 263. 



Molge ignea, Merr. Tent. p. 186 ; Gravenh. Belie, p. 81. 



— — alpestris, Merr. I. c. p. 187. 



Triton apuanus, Bonap. Faun. Ital. 



Hemitriton alpestris, Bugbs, Ann. So. Nat. (3) xvii. p. 263. 



Fronto-squamosal arch ligamentous ; frontals with distinct orbital 



