a | 
Salamandra melanosticta Gibbes, Boston Jour. N. H. v.89. t. 10. 
a. In spirits. N. America, Niagara. Back with three indis- 
tinct series of black specks. Sides dark, clouded. 
42 | CATALOGUE OF AMPHIBIA. 
D. Tongue peltate; top subcircular, dilated; free all round, only 
attached by a central subcylindrical pedicel, which is surrounded 
by a sheath. “ Tongue entirely protractyle, capable of consider- 
able protrusion, and supported on the top of the constricted hyod 
apparatus. Sphenordal teeth on two plates, not in contact, diverg- 
ing behind.” Baird.—(idipina. 3 
8. BATRACHOSEPS. 
Head very short. Eyes prominent.—Skin smooth.—Body and tail 
elongate, slender, roundish, plaited on the sides.—Lzimbs slender, 
far apart. — Toes 4:4, short, slender, free.— Tongue peltate. 
_ — Palatine teeth very small, in a small transverse arched series. 
Batrachoseps Bonap. Fauna Ital. ii. 131. n. 9. 1841; Pitz. S. Rept. 
33.; Baird, Jour. Acad. N. S. P. 1849, 283. 287. 
Salamandrina Eschsch. Zool. Atlas, 21. (not Savi.) 
. . a 
1. BATRACHOSEPS ATTENUATUS. 
Blackish brown. Back and upper part redder, with a black dorsal 
line and diagonal cross lines. Body and tail elongate, slender, 
round. Feet very small, thin. Toes 4: 4, subequal, free. 
Salamandrina attenuata Esch. Zool. Ailas, t. 21. f. 1—14. 
Batrachoseps attenuatus Bonap. Fauna Ital. ii. 131. 1841; Pitz. 
S. ft. 33. | 
B. attenuata Baird, 1. c. 288. 
OstEoL. Esch. Zool. Atlas, t. 21. f. 5, 6. 
a—c. In spirits. Young and adult. St. Francisco, California. 
2. BATRACHOSEPS QUADRIDIGITATUS. 
Pale straw colour, beneath bluish and silvery, vertebral and lateral 
line brown dotted. Body long, slender. Tail very long. 
Salamandra quadridigitata Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp. v. 65. t. 21. 
Batr. quadridigitata Baird, J. A. N.S. Phil, 1849, 287. | 
Hab. Georgia, Florida, 8. Carolina. 
