22 SALIMANDEIB^. 



p. 57, pi. xvii.; Bekay, N. Y. Faun., Rept. p. 73, pi. xv. f. 33; 



Wied, I. c. p. 125. 

 Salamandra millepunctata, Storer, Boat. Journ. W. H.ii. p. 60. 



gi-eenii, Gray, Oriff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 107. 



Triton dorsalis, Holbr. I. c. p. 77, pi. xxv. ; Bum. 8f Bihr. p. 155. » 



millepunctatus, Bekay, I. c. p. 84, pi. xv. f. 34. 



Notoptlialmus miniatus, Baird, Jaurn. Ac. Philad. (2) i. p. 284. 



viridescens, Baird, I. c. 



Triton punctatissimus. Bum. ^ Bihr. p. 154. 



symmetricus. Bum. Sr Bibr. p. 154, pi. 107. i.2. 



Diemyctylus Tiridesceijs, Hallow. Journ. Ac. Philad. (n. s.) iii. p. 363. 



miniatus, Hallow. I. e. 



Triton viridescens, Strauch, Salam. p. 50. 



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

 parallel- and in contact in their anterior half, diverging behind, 

 forming a A-shaped figure ; these series commencing on a line with 

 the choansB. Tongue small, elliptical, free along the sides. Head 

 longer than broad, its length contained thrice or thrice and a half 

 in the length of the body ; the greatest width at angles of jaws ; 

 three distinct longitudinal grooves on the head ; snout truncate ; 

 loreal region high, vertical ; labial lobes well developed during the 

 breeding-season. Body rounded, no dorsal crest, but the vertebral 

 line swollen. Limbs moderate, the hind pair very strong and 

 dilated, and furnished with black rugosities on the inner surface in 

 the breeding male ; fingers and toes depressed, free ; inner and 

 outer toes extremely short ; carpal and tarsal tubercles indistinct. 

 Tail longer than head and body in the adult, strongly compressed 

 during the breeding-season, with an upper and lower crest ; it ends 

 in a more or less acute point. Cloaca of female as in M. vulgaris ; 

 of breeding male globiform, with inferior central opening, surrounded 

 by radiating cilia. Skin smooth or minutely tubercular; head with 

 distinct series of pores ; three very large pores on each side of the 

 head, behind the eyes; no gular fold. Eeddish or olive-brown 

 above, generally dotted with black ; on each side of the back a series 

 of four to seven red, black-edged oceUi ; a blackish streak on each 

 side of the head, passing through the eye, extending sometimes 

 along each flank ; female frequently with a red dorsal streak ; lower 

 surface red or orange, dotted with black. 



6. $. 



■ Total length ! . 92 92 millim. 



From snout to cloaca 40 44 „ 



Head 10 10^ „ 



Width of head 8 8 „ 



Fore limb 15 15 „ 



Hind limb 17 15 „ 



TaH 52 48 „ 



United States — Eastern and Austro-riparian districts. 



a-h, c,d-e. c? , S , & yg- New York, 

 y. 6 , Pennsylvania. 



