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9, SPELERPES. 
Head moderate. Eyes moderate, pupil oblong, horizontal. Paro- 
tids none. Tongue large, peltate, free all round, on a cylindri- 
cal central pedicel. Palatine teeth in a transverse series, between 
the internal nostrils. Sphenoidal teeth in two or more longitu- 
dinal series. — Body subcylindrical, plaited on the sides. — Toes 
4:5, free.— Tail subcylindrical, tapering, keeled ba and 
rounder beneath. 
Spelerpes Rajin. Atlant. Jour. i. 22. 1832; Baird, Jour. A. N. S. 
Phil. 1849, 287. 
Pseudotriton Tschudi, Batrac. 60. 94. 1838; Baird, Jour. A: N.S. 
Phil. 1849, 286. 
Batrachopsis Fitz. Syst. Rept. 34. 18. 
Cylindrosoma Tschudi, Batrac. 60. 94. 1838 ; Bonap. Fauna Ital. 
1.131. n. 7. 
Mycetoglossus Bibron, MS., fide Bonap. Fauna Ital. 11. 131. 
Molge sp. Werrem, Tent. 185. 
Plethodon saurocercus /%tz. S. R. 34. 
Triton sp. Troost. | 
Salamandra sp. Green, Holbrook, Storer. 
Larva: | 
Siren sp. Pal. de Beauv. Amer. Phil. Trans. iv. 279. 1796. 
Proteus sp. Green, Jour. A. N.S. Phil. i. 358. 1818. 
§ Tail elongate, compressed, rounder beneath. — Spelerpes. 
1. SPELERPES LONGICAUDA. bites 
Nose moderate, depressed. Eyes large. Body elongate, lemon- 
coloured above, marked with small, irregular, oblong or round, 
black spots. ‘Tail more than twice as long as the body, com- 
pressed, with black cross bands. 
Salamandra longicauda G'reen, Jour. A. N.S. Philad. i. 351. 1818; 
Harlan, N. A. Rept. 15., M. and Ph. Res. 16.; Holbrook, N. A. 
ery. 4 GY. 4. 19.; Schlegel, Faun. Japon. 118. ; ; Dekay, Rept. 
N. Y. 78. t. 17. f. 41. 
Spelerpes lucifuga Raf. Atlant. Jour. i. 22. 1832. 
Spel. longicauda Baird, 1. c. 287. 
Cylindrosoma longicauda Tschudi, Batr. 93.; Bonap. Fauna Iial. 
mM, iat. 
Plethodon (Saurocercus) longicauda Fitz. S. R. 34. 
a. In spirits. Half-grown ; middle of back and upper part of 
