54 CATALOGUE OF AMPHIBIA. 
Triton alleghaniensis Daud. Rept. viii. 231. 
Leverian Water Newt Shaw, Zool. 44. 303. 1802. 
Proteus of the Lakes (young) Say, Jour. A. S. Phil. i. i 4 
Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis Van der Hoeven, Tijdsch. i. t. f. 4.7. 
1838. . 
Cryptobranchus salamandroides Leuck. Isis, 1821, 257.; Fitz. N. 
C. 66. 1826. 3 
Eurycea mucronata Rafin. Atlant. Jour. No. 3. 121. 1832. : 
Alligator at Pittsburg. i‘ 
Osteot. t. 4. f. 18. Cuvier, Oss. Fos. v. 409. t. 26. f. 3, 4, 5, 6. 
(skull). ; Van der Hoeven, |. c. t. 1. f. 4. 
a. In spirits. Young, not good state. N. America. From 
the Leyden Museum. 
b. In spirits. Adult. N. America. 
2. PRoTONOPSIS FUSCA. 
Head large, flat. Muzzle full and rounded. Body uniform, pale 
brown, beneath paler. 
Menopoma fusca Holbrook, H. Amer. Herp. v. 99. t. 33.; Baird, 
I, c. 290. 
Hab. N: Carolina and Georgia. Probably only a variety of the 
former. | 
Fam. I. AMPHIUMID. 
Head oblong, nearly four-sided. Muzzle truncated. Lips thick, 
external. Gape small. Jawswith a series of small golden-coloured 
teeth. Palate with two subcentral, longitudinal, rather diverg- 
ing series of teeth, nearly parallel to the maxillary teeth. (See 
t. 4, f.21., from Owen, Odont. t. 62. f. 7.) ‘Tongue indistinct. 
Internal nostrils surrounded by bone on the sides of the palate. 
Neck with a foramen on each side. 
Body eel-shaped. 
Feet four, short, slender, jointless, of little use for walking. 
Toes rudimentary. 
ibs very rudimentary. 
Living in water, burrowing in the mud in swamps near streams. 
Hybernates. 
Amphiumide (part.) Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825 ; Bonap. Distrib. Anim. 
Avert. 27., Amph. Eur. 
Amphiuminina Bonap. Amph. Eur. 62. , 
Amphiuma Cuvier, R. A. iu. 118. 
Abranchia (part.) Swains. Cab. Cyclop. 1. 342. 1839. 
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