3. MoieE. 23 



g. S ■ S. Carolina. Dr. Harlan [P.]. 



h-i. cJ $ . S. Carolina. 



h-n. 5 & yg. N. America. Edw. Doubleday, Eaq. [P.]. 



o-p. $ and breeding cJ N. America. Prof. St. George Mivart [P.], 



with gills. 



14. Molge montaua. 



Molge platycephala, part., Gravenh. Delia, p. 84. 



Megapterna montana, Savi, Nuov. Giom. Tose. xxxvii. p. 211 ; Bonap. 



Faun. Itcd. ; Bedriaga, Zool. Anz. 1882, p.46, and Arch.f. Nat. xlix. 



p. 127, pis. 3-5. 

 Euproctus platyceplialus, part., Bonap. I. o. ; De Betta, Atti 1st. 



Venet. (5) v. 

 montanus, GiglioU, An. Mm. Genov. liii. p. 699 ; Bedriaga, 



Zool. Am. 1879, p. 451 ; Camerano, Zool. Anz. 1881, p. 183. 

 platycephalus P, Bouleng. Bull. Soe. Zool. France, 1878, p. 305. 



Fronto-squamosal arch ligamentouB ; frontals with distinct orbital 

 processes. Palatine teeth in two series, parallel, and in contact 

 in their anterior half, divergent behind, thus forming a J^-shaped 

 figure ; these series commencing on a line with the choanae. Tongue 

 rather large, subcircular, attached along the median line, slightly free 

 behind, protractile. Head rather large, depressed, longer than broad, 

 its length contained thrice ( c? ) or thrice and a half ( $ ) in the length 

 of the body ; the greatest width of 'head at posterior corners of eyes ; 

 snout rounded ; no labial lobes. Body rounded ; no dorsal crest. 

 Limbs moderate ; fingers and toes short, depressed ; tarsal and carpal 

 tubercles indistinct ; male with a much developed, rounded dila- 

 tation of the fibulum. Tail a little shorter than head and body, 

 compressed, ending in a point. Vent generally conical, directed 

 backwards, with circular opening ; sometimes (?) a longitudinal 

 slit, the borders of which are scarcely swollen. Skin finely tuber- 

 cular above, smooth beneath ; sides of head with distinct pores ; 

 on each side of the neck a large well-defined parotoid gland ; no 

 gular fold. Brown, immaculate, or variegated with darker and 

 lighter above and speckled with whitish beneath ; sometimes a light 

 vertebral line. 



6. ?. 



Total length 114 108 millim. 



Prom snout to cloaca .... 56 58 



Head 14 13 



Width of head 11 10 



Fore Umb 18 18 



Hind limb 21 20 



Tail 58 50 



Corsica. 



a-e. 6 $ , hgr., Lago d'Argento, Monte Prof. Giglioli [E.]. 



& larvse. Cinto (6000 feet). 



f-g. Yg. & larva. Corsica. Dr. J. v. Bedriaga [E.]. 



h-i. Yg. & larva. Corsica. G. A. Boulenger, Esq. [P.]. 



