18 SALAMANBEIBJB. 



Body quadrangular in the male, a well-developed cutaneous fold 

 bordering each side ; no dorsal crest ; in the female, the body nearly 

 round. Limbs moderate ; fingers and toes depressed, free ; carpal 

 and tarsal tubercles distinct. Tail strongly compressed during the 

 breeding-season, and with an upper and lower crest, as long as or a 

 little shorter than head and body ; in the male it ends in a fila- 

 ment. Skin smooth or rather warty above, smooth beneath ; head 

 with distinct series of pores ; a distinct gular fold. OUve or brownish 

 above, variegated with darker ; the vertebral line generally lighter 

 in the female ; in the male, the head is minutely speckled with 

 blackish, and the feet are black ; lower surfaces orange, immaculate ; 

 lower caudal edge orange, with black vertical spots in the male. 



s. 2- 



Total length 76 85 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 38 43 „ 



Head 9 10 „ 



Width of head 8 8 „ 



Fore limb 15 17 „ 



Hind limb 15 16 „ 



Tail 38 42 „ 



Moldavia. 



a-c, d-f. cJ $ . ■ Moldavia. G. A. Boulenger, Esq. [P.]. 



9. Molge boscae. 



Pelonectes boscai, Lataste, Rev. Intern. So. iii. 1879, p. 275 ; Tourne- 



ville, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1879, p. 72, pi. 7. 

 Triton palmatus, var. boscai, Boettger, Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. (3) iv. 



p. 516. 

 maltzani, Boettger, I. c. p. 521*. 



Fronto-squamosal arch bony, thick. Palatine teeth in two poste- 

 riorly diverging series, forming a A-shaped figure ; these' series 

 commencing on a line with the choanse. Tongue moderate, sub- 

 circular, free along the sides and more or less behind. Head a 

 little longer than broad, with a single longitudinal groove, its 

 length contained about thrice in the length of the body; the 

 greatest width at anterior corners of eyes ; latter prominent ; snout 

 broad, truncate ; labial lobes much developed. Body subquadran- 

 gular in the breeding male, nearly round in the female ; no dorsal 

 crest. Limbs moderate ; fingers and toes depressed, free ; carpal 

 and tarsal tubercles distinct. Tail strongly compressed during the 

 breeding-season, with an upper and lower crest, as long as or a 

 little longer than head and body; in the male the tail ends rather 

 abruptly, and is shortly mucronate. Cloaca of male a longitudinal 



* Having, through the kindness of my friend Dr. O. Boettger, examined the 

 type specimen (a young ^) m the Senokenberg Museum, I am able to state 

 that that species is the same as M. boscE. The larger tongue is a character of 

 immaturity, which I have frequently noticed in other species of this genus 



