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fleshy, scarcely free on the edges. — Feet short, strong. — Toes 
4:5.—Ribs- ? — Skull broad, with a distinct zygomatic arch. 
Cynops Tschudi, Batrac. 94.; Bonap. Fauna Ital. ii. 131. n.11.; 
Fitz. S. R. 33. 
Pelonectes sp. Fitz. S. R. 33. 
Salamandrina (part.) Fitz. S. R. 33. 
I. Cynorps PYRRHOGASTER. 
Brown, beneath bright red, black-spotted. 
Molge pyrrhogastra Boie, Isis, 1826, 215. 
Cynops subcristatus Tschudi, Batr. 94. t. 2. f. 5. 
Salam. subcristata Schlegel, Fauna Jap. vii. t. 4. f. 1.2, 3. t. 5. 
f. 7, 8., Abbild. t. 40. f.1. 3. 
Ostrou. +.3.f.13. Tschudi, Batr. t.2. f.5.; cop. Schlegel, 
Fauna Japon. t. 5. f. 7, 8. (palatine teeth omitted.) 7 
a—c. In spirits. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 
7. TARICHA. 
Head broad, crown flat, granular. Tongue roundish, attached ; 
hinder and side edges only slightly free. Palatine teeth in two 
parallel nearly close series. Parotids swollen, porous.— Skin 
granular. Sides with a black line, but without any line of 
pores.— Tail elongated, compressed.— Tves 4 : 5, free, depressed. 
— Postorbital apophysis distinct. 
Notopthalmus (part.) Rajfin.; Baird, Amer. Batr. 284. 1849. 
1. TARICHA TOROSA. 
Black, with scattered, elevated, roundish, granular tubercles. 
Chin, throat, abdomen, and beneath, yellow mingled with very 
minute pale dots. Tail rather longer than the head and body, 
rounded at the base, compressed at the end, with a slightly 
elevated keel on the two edges. Length six inches. Toes 
4:5, mner very small. 
Triton torosus Esch. Zool. Atlas, iii. 12. t. 21. f. 15. (skull.) 
Notophthalmus torosus Baird, Amer. Batr. 284. 
Salamandra Beecheyi Gray in Griffith's A. K. i. 107.; Zool. Bee- 
chey’s Voy. t. 31. f. 3. 1839. ! 
_ Triton Ermanni Wiegm.; Ermann, Reise, 1835, Arch. 1836. 
T. granulosus. Skelton, Sillim. Jour. vii. 202. 1849. 
Pleurodeles Californie Bibron in Mus. Zool. Soc. 
a, 6. In spirits, California, Monterey. 
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