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36 CATALOGUE OF AMPHIBIA. 
compressed, two-edged, coloured like body. Tongue broad, 
sub-round, entire, adherent posteriorly, less so in front, only 
loose and movable on the sides. Palatine teeth from outer 
margin of inner nostrils inwards and backwards. Sphenoid — | 
teeth in a larger transverse slightly arched group, rather in 
front of the end of the former.” | 
Salamandra tigrina Geen, J. Acad. N. S. Phil. v. 116.; Harlan, 
N. A. Rept. 12., M. and P. Res. 93. | 
Triton tigrina Holbrook, N. A. Herp. v. 79. t. 26. 
Ambystoma tigrina Baird, 1. c. 284. 
Hab. New Jersey, Massachussets. 
3. AMBYSTOMA ? TALPOIDEUM. 
“ Dusky, nearly black ; beneath dusky, purplish. Head very large, 
flattened. Muzzle full, rounded. Mouth large. Tongue sub- 
rhomboidal, smaller and perfectly adherent behind, lateral and 
front edges free. Internal nostrils large. Palatine teeth minute, 
in a line, slightly arched backward in the middle, where the 
teeth are largest and more numerous. Sphenoid toothless. Eye 
small. Body short, thick, clumsy, Tail short, thick, com- 
pressed. Fore limbs short, thick, stout. Fingers four, short. 
Hinder limbs stouter. ‘Toes five, slightly united at their base.” 
Salamandra talpoidea Holbrook, N. A. Herp. v. 73. t. 24. 
Hab. South Carolina,‘on the seaislands. Terrestrial, burrowing 
under the ground like moles. 
4. AMBYSTOMA OPACUM. 
Head short, broad. Muzzle large, rounded. Body and tail pale 
ash, with irregular bluish-black cross bands. ‘Throat and abdo- 
men purplish blue. Tail as long as body, compressed, 
Salamandra opaca Gravenh. Ueber Zool. Syst. 431. 1807, Delic 
Mus. Urat. 1.75. t. 10. 
Salamandra Gravenhorstii Leuckart in Fitz. N. Class. Rept. 1825. 
Salamandra fasciata G'reen, Jour. Acad. N. S. Phil. 1. 350. 1818; 
Harlan, N. A. Rept. 13., Med. and Ph. Rep. 94. ;-Holbrook, N. A. 
Herp. v. 71. t. 23.; Dekay, Rept. N. York, 77. t. 17. f. 40. 
Ambystoma opaca Baird, 1. c. 280. | 
Ambystoma subviolacea (var?) Tschudi, Batr. 92. 
a,b. In spirits. N. America. Presented by Dr. Mac 
Murtrie. co 
c. In spirits. N. America. Presented by Thos. Bell, Esq. 
d. In spirits. N. America. 
e, f. In spirits. N. America. From the Leyden Museum. 
g, h. In spirits. N. America. Ble ES 
