14 SALAMANDRIDjB. 



Fronto-squamosal arch bony. Palatine teeth in two series, in 

 contact in their anterior third, diverging posteriorly, commencing 

 on a line with the choanae. Tongue small, suboircular, sides and 

 posterior margin free. Head a little longer than broad, its length 

 contained about thrice and a half in the length of the body ; the 

 greatest width of head at angles of mouth ; snout rounded ; labial 

 lobes well developed during the breeding-season. Body rounded ; 

 breeding male with an elevated, slightly toothed dorsal crest abruptly 

 sinking on pelvic region; a slight vertebral ridge in the female. 

 Limbs moderate ; fingers and toes moderate, latter webbed at the 

 base in the breeding male ; tarsal tubercles two, sometimes indistinct. 

 Tail a little longer than head and body, ending in a point, strongly 

 compressed during the breeding-season, and with an upper and lower 

 crest. Skin smooth or minutely tuberculate ; head and parotoid 

 region with distinct pores ; no gular fold. Grey or brown above, 

 closely black-spotted ; dorsal crest with vertical black bars, alter- 

 nately broader and narrower ; side of - body and tail with a white, 

 black-edged band ; throat black-dotted ; belly immaculate. 



d. S- 



Total length Ill 104 millim. 



From snout to cloaca ... . 51 51 „ 



Head 11 11 „ 



Width of head 9| 10 „ 



Fore limb 18 17 „ 



Hind limb 20 16 „ 



Tail 60 53 „ 



Asia Minor, Syria. 



Or-B. cJ $ . ? Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. (Types.) 



d-f. (S & yg. Asia Minor. 



6. Molge vulgaris. 



Lophinus punctatus, Gray, Cat. p. 27. 

 Lacerta vulgaris, Idnn. Faun. Suec. p. 281, and S. N. i. p. 370. 



palustris, part., Zinn. II. cc. 



aquatica, Linn. II. cc. 



Triton palustris, Laur. Syn. JRept.m. 39, 145, pi. 4. f. 2. 



parisinus, Laur. I. c. p. 40 ; Toumeoilte, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 



1879, p. 74. 

 Salamandra exigua, Laur. I. c. pp. 41, 148, pi. 8. f. 4. 



taeniata, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 58. 



abdominalia, Latr. Hist. Salam. p. 50, pi. 5. f. 4 ; Daud. Sept. 



viii. p. 250. 



punctata, Latr. I. c. p. 63, pi. 6. f. 6 ; Daud. I. e. p. 257. 



Lacerta taeniata, Stv/rm, lieutschl. Faun. 



Molge punctata, Merr. Tent. p. 186. 



Triton abdominalia, Bibr. in Bory, Exp6d. Mor4e, iii. pi. 15. f . 4 5. 



Molge tseniata, Qravenh. Delic. p. 76, pi. 11 & pi 12, f. 1, 2. ' " 



Salamandra vulgaris, Oray, Qnff. A. K., ix. Syn. p. 106'. 



Triton vulgaris, Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 158. 



lobatus (OttK), Tsehudi, Batr. p, 95 ; Fatio, Vert. Suisse iii 



p. 557, pi. 4 ' ■ 



