24 CATALOGUE OF AMPHIBIA. 
two, straight, diverging. — Parotids none.—Shkin granulose (in 
young smooth, soft); anal regions of the adult produced into a — 
cone, upper foramen roundish at base of tail.— Tail rather 
long, subcompressed, round at the base.—Limbs strong. — Toes 
4:5, long, slender, free; plantar warts none; middle toe long- 
est.— Ribs well developed, mobile.— Orbit with a peculiar bony 
arch above. | 
Bibron represents the tongue as small and rhombic, and the 
hinder end of the series of palatine teeth as arched and diverging. 
Euproctus Gené; Bonap. Fauna Ital. ii. 95. 131. n.13., Amph. 
Eur. 21.; Berthold, Lehrb. Zool. 211. 1845 ; 
?Megapterna Savi, N. Gior. 1839; Bonap. Faun. Ital. i. 
Pelonectes Fitz. S. R. 33. 
Salamandrina (part.) Pitz. S. R. 
1. Euproctus PLATYCEPHALUS. 
Olive brown, white-granulated. Centre of under side cinereous, 
black dotted and spotted. Tail rather longer than the body. 
Male thighs smooth; female thighs spurred behind. Young 
ashy brown, very minutely black-dotted ; beneath yellowish ash. 
Larva brown; back with two series of ferruginous spots. Tail — 
short, two-edged. Peas 
Molge platycephala Otto; Gravenh. Mus. Wrat. 84. 3. 
Triton Rusconi Gené, Mus. Tigur. 
Euproctus Rusconi G'ené, Syn. Rept. Sard. 78. t.1. f.34.; Bonap. 
Fauna Ital. t.  .; Berthold, Lehrb. Zool. 211. 1845; Bibron, 
Explor. Sci. Algérie, Rept. t. 4. f. 2. no text. 
?Megapterna montana Savi, Nuov. Giorn. Pisa, 1839, 211.; Bonap. 
Fauna Ital. t. 62. 
Euproctus platycephalus Bonap. Amph. Eur. 68., Fauna Tial. 
ns oe | | 2 
Pelonectes platycephalus Fitz. S. fi. 33. 
Hab. Sardinia and Corsica. Mus. Bonaparte, Rome. 
c. The sides without any series of pores between the axilla and groin. 
6. CYNOPS. 
Head broad, crown flat, muzzle prominent. Parotids very large, 
swollen, compressed, rounded; and glands on the sides of the 
neck porous. — Body short.— Skin granulose. Sides without 
any series of pores.—Zail compressed, smooth.—Palatine teeth 
small, in two separate longitudinal series, rather diverging behind. 
(t. 3. f. 13.) — Tongue very small, suborbicular, adherent, slender, , 
