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22 CATALOGUE OF AMPHIBIA. 
regular series of black spots. Hungary. Mr. Brandt's — 
collection. ‘ 
Var.1. Skin very smooth, scarcely warty. 
T. alpestris apuanus Bonap. Fauna Ital. t. .f.3., Amph. Eur. 70. 
Hab. Italy. Mus. Bonaparte. 
5.? Triron nycuTuEmERvs Michah., Bonap. Fauna Ital. t. . £.5., 
Tschudi, Batrac. 95. “is perhaps the young of T. mar- 
morata ? or I’. cristata.” Bonap. Amph. Eur. 
6. Triton Ermanni Wiegm., quoted by Tschudi, Batrac. om » 19 
unknown to me. 
4, NOTOPHTHALMUS. 
Head flat, crown ridged. Skin granular, rugose. Tongue small, 
oblong, attached, edges scarcely free. Palatine teeth in two 
series, rather wider apart behind. Internal nostrils large, ob- 
long, transverse. Parotids none, poreless. — Sides with a series 
of pores. — Toes 4:5, free, depressed; soles warty. —Tail com- 
pressed. Lower sides of thighs of males? with a callous plaited 
band. 
A bony orbit above the eye, formed of the union of processes 
from the frontal and tympanic bones, enclosing a foramen through 
which pass the flexor muscles of the jaw, similar in this respect to. 
Cynops, Pleurodeles, and Huproctus. 'The ossification extending 
to the hyoid apparatus, carpus, and tarsus. Vertebre much 
compressed, with high crests. ‘Three apertures in the skin of the 
cheeks behind the eye, not communicating with the cavity of 
the mouth. Hind feet much flattened; first and fifth hind toes 
nearly rudimentary. Baird, |. c. 281.1849. 
Dr. Holbrook describes this species as having a transverse series 
of palatine teeth, but they are not apparent in our specimens. 
The genus chiefly differs from Triton in the want of parotids. 
Triturus (and Notophthalmia and Diemictylus) Rafin. An. Nat.n. 
24, March, 1820. 
Notophthalmus sp. Baird, Amer. Batr. 1849. 
1. NoToPHTHALMUS MINIATUS. 
Head, body, and tail brownish red, brown-spotted; throat and 
abdomen orange red; back with two rows of deep red, symme- 
trical, black-edged spots. Tail longer than the body, tip com- 
pressed. ee 
