MOLGIDZ : HYNOBIUS, MOLGE. 31 
2. MOLGE. 
Head thick. Parotids large, depressed. Tongue large, adherertt 
aiong the centre. Teeth of the palate in two long oblique di- 
verging series, rather arched in front to the inner nostrils. (t. 3. 
_f. 14.)— Feet short, thick.—Collar large.— Tail thick, rounded, - 
extreme tip compressed.—Skin very smooth. 
Pseudo-Salamandra Tschudi, Batr. 56. 91. 1838; Fitz. S. R. 33. 
Molge sp. Merrem, Tent.185. 
Molge Bonap. Fauna Ital. ii. 131. n. 3. 
1. Monee sTRIATA. 
Black; beneath whitish and black varied. 
Pseudo-Salamandra nevia Tschudi, Batr. 92. 
Molge striata Bonap. Faun. Ital. ii. 131. 
- Molge striata (part.) Merrem, Tent. 185. 
Salamandra nevia Schlegel, Fauna Japon. t. 4. f. 1,2, 3., t. 5. f. 9. 
10., Abbild. t. 39. f. 4. : 
Salamandre schisteuse Schlegel, Fauna Japon. 127.? 
OstEox. t. 3. f. 14. Schlegel, Faun. Japon. t. 5. f. 9, 10. (skull.) 
a—d. In spirits. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 
Fam. OL PLETHODONTID. 
Palatine teeth forming an interrupted cross series in front of the 
palate, between the internal nostrils, each series running across 
the hinder end of the broad vomerine bones. The sphenoid 
with two more or less broad, sometimes confluent, series of teeth, 
which are rarely wanting. t.3.f.15. Paratoid indistinct. — 
_ Skin smooth, rarely granular, without any series of pores. 
Dr. Holbrook’s ‘description of the palatine teeth in many in- 
stances, and sometimes of the tongue, does not agree with the 
specimens in the British Museum. 
Dr. Baird’s Revision of N. American Tailed Batrachia, in Jour. 
Acad, N. S. Philad. n. s. i. 281., Oct. 1849, appears more accu- 
rate. 
Synopsis of Genera. 
A. Tongue broad, adherent, only slightly free on the sides. 
Sphenord toothless. 
a. Toes and Fingers clawed. Hind Legs dilated. 
1. Onycnopactytus. Toes 4:5, free. . h' 
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