BATRACHIAURODELA. § 



brought home by the Expedition ; is figured and described further on ; 

 the other was collected at San Francisco, Cal., by Dr. John L, 

 Leconte, and recorded under the name of TaricJia Icevis ;* it being 

 perfectly smooth, and furthermore distinguished from Taricha torosa 

 by proportionally smaller eyes and more elongated toes. 



Hallowell's Salamandra luguhris, doubtfully referred by J. E. Grayf 

 to the genus TaricJia, is entirely distinct from the latter, and consti- 

 tutes now the genus Anaides, described further on. 



Taricha torosa, Gray. 

 (Plate I, figs. 1-8.) 



Spec. Char. — Tail longer than the head and body together, com- 

 pressed, provided with a slightly elevated membranous keel upon 

 its upper and lower edges. Tip of toes callous ; inner toe in both 

 pair of limbs very small. Skin granular. Color blackish-brown above, 

 with minute pale dots ; sides of abdomen orange ; beneath yellowish. 



^Y^.— Triton torosus, EsGHSCH. ZooL Atl. V. 1833, 12. Taf. xxi, fig. 15. 



Triton ermani, WiEGM. in Erman's Reise um die Erde, 1835, ; 



and Arch, fiir Naturg. 1836, II, 250. 



Salamandra beeclieyi, GrRAY, in Beechey's Voy. to the Pacif. Zool. 1839, 99. 



Triton gramdosus, Skilt. Amer. Journ. of Sci. YII, 1849, 202. PI. figs. 4 and 5. 



Notophthalmus torosus^ Baird, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. Second Series, I, 

 1850, 284. 



Pleurodeles californiae, BiBR. in Mus. Zool. Soc. London. (Fide G-ray.) 



Taricha torosa, Gray, Catal. Amph. Brit. Mus. II, 1850, 25. 



Descr. — The head is broad and depressed, the upper surface being 

 subconvex. Viewed from above, it is subelliptical in shape, longer 

 than broad. The snout is subtruncated, and the temporal region 

 swollen. The eyes are of medium size, elliptical in shape. The dis- 

 tance between the anterior rim of the eye and the extremity of the 

 snout is eqiml to one and a half diameter of the eye. The nostrils 

 are subterminal, and far apart. The upper jaw overlaps the lower, 

 the mouth being but moderately cleft, and extending posteriorly a 



* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. YI, 1853, 302. 

 t Catal. Amph. Brit. Mus. Part II, 1850, 26 

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