68 SALAMAWDEIDiB. 



parasphenoid patches; latter distinct from each other. Snout rounded, 

 truncate. Posterior limb stout; fingers and toes flat, depressed, 

 margined, inner very rudimental. Tail a little shorter than head 

 and body, swollen, little compressed, constricted at base. Skin 

 everywhere finely wrinkled ; a gailar fold ; eleven costal grooves. 

 Colour dull black, paler on the sides ; lips and gular region minutely 

 marbled with ashen. Total length 65 mUlim. 

 Mexico. 



10. Spelerpes leprosus. 



Spelerpes leprosus, Cope, R-oc. Ac. Philad. 1869, p. 105. 



Palatine teeth in two slightly arched series, extending externally 

 beyond choanae, separated from parasphenoid patches by a slight 

 interspace ; parasphenoid patches narrow, well separated, diverging 

 posteriorly. Head moderate, depressed, longer than broad ; greatest 

 width at angles of jaws ; mouth rounded, without canthus rostralis ; 

 eyes moderately large. Body cylindrical, measuring three to three 

 and a half times the distance from tip of snout to gular fold. Limbs 

 rather weak ; fingers and toes short, depressed, webbed at the base, 

 inner very short. Tail cylindrical, about the length of head and 

 body. Skin smooth, closely pitted ; no parotoids ; gular fold dis- 

 tinct ; twelve costal grooves. Black ; sides of body and tail, and 

 sometimes back, splotched Hchen-hke with grey. 



c?. ?. 



Total length 91 105 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 46 53 „ 



Head Qi 11 „ 



Width of head 8 9 „ 



Fore limb 12 14 „ 



Hind limb 15 17 „ 



TaU 45 52 „ 



Mexico. 



a-d. 6 S ■ Mexico. M. Sall^ [O.j. 



e-g. <S & yg. Jalapa. Mr. Hoege [0.]. 



11. Spelerpes bellii. 



Spelerpes bellii, Gray, Cat. p. 46. 

 Bolitoglossa mexicana, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 93, pi. 104. f. 2. 

 Spelerpes bellii, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 372, and 1869; 

 p. 105 ; Strauch, Salam. p. 84. 



Palatine teeth in two slightly arched series, extending externally 

 beyond choanse, separated from parasphenoid patches by a small 

 interspace; parasphenoid patches well separated, diverging pos- 

 teriorly. Head moderate, depressed, slightly longer than broad, 

 greatest width at angles of jaws ; snout short, rounded, without 

 canthus rostralis ; eyes large. Body slightly depressed, measuring 



