SIZE OF THE BRITISH NEWTS. 147 



Male. Female. 



Total length millim. 98 80 



Length to cloaca ... „ 45 40 



which concords with the length assigned to British specimens 

 by Bell. 



Larger specimens, from Knockholt, Kent, were presented to 

 the British Museum in May last by Mr. W. Blackwell. They 

 measure : — 



Male. Female. 



Total length millim. 104 94 



Length to cloaca ... „ 45 46 



I had previously collected nearly equally large specimens near 

 Brussels. 



3. Molge palmata. 



This is the smallest European species. Schreiber's statement 

 that it is usually somewhat larger than M. vulgaris, unless 

 copied from Leydig, is to be explained by his having confounded 

 M. boscce and M. palmata under the name of Triton helveticus. 

 His specimen, 88 millim. long, therefore, probably belongs to 

 M. boscce. The largest specimens studied by Fatio (op. cit.), from 

 Switzerland, Lataste (Faune Herpet. Gironde), from S. France, 

 and v. Mehely (Math. Term- Koslem., Budapest, xxv., 1893, 

 No. 4), from Freiburg i. Br., present the following dimensions : — 



Males. Females. 



Geneva. Freiburg. Gironde. Geneva Freiburg. Gironde. 

 Total length* millim. 86 74 67 73 76 74 



Length to cloaca „ 37 34 — 34 34 — 



Specimens which I obtained in April last, at Fowey, in Corn- 

 wall, nearly equal ( $ ) or exceed ( ? ) any of the above : — 



Male. Female. 



Total length millim. 80 85 



Length to cloaca ... „ 36 42 



* Including the caudal filament. 



