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CAIJDATA. 



Tbiton ? 



Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. (2 ser.) yi. 1836, p. 312. 

 Oasis of Bahriyeh. A. Lef^vre. 



G-ervais mentions that M. A. Lef^vre brought a species of 

 Triton fj-om the oasis of Bahriyeh. 



Salamandba ? 



Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Grad. 1882, p. 106, footnote. 



Near Alexandria. M. Letourneux. 



Mr. Boulenger says : — " M. F. Lataste received several larvae of 

 a Salamandroid collected near Alexandria by M. Letourneux. 

 It wiir probably turn out to be S. maculosa, which has recently 

 been discovered in Syria, and which accordingly will be Circum- 

 mediterraneaii." 



These are the only two references in zoological literature tliat 

 mention the presence in Egypt of this group of Batrachian?. 



I made a most careful search on two successive years for Sala- 

 maiidroids in the neighbourhood of Eamleh, and on two or three 

 occasions I employed an intelligent Syrian, who used to collect 

 for M. Letourneux, to do the same, but neither I nor he ever 

 succeeded in finding any. I went provided with some British 

 newts in alcohol to show to the natives, in order to give them 

 some idea of the kind of animal of which I was in quest, but all 

 the agricultural labourers to whom I showed them declared that 

 they had never seen such animals, in the localities I had selected 

 as appearing to me to be the most likely spots in which to find 

 Salamandroids. I hope my experience, however, will not deter 

 others from continuing the search, in view of what has been put 

 on record by Gervais, and by Boulenger, on the authority of 

 Lataste. i^ 



May 28, 1896. 



