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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
kda picta (D. & B.), and considers that the question of the identity or non-^ 
identity of Callula and Flectropus is not settled. — On the other hand, Stein- 
dachner agrees with Peters that both are distinct j Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, 
1864, p. 256; he adds a figure of Hylcedactylus conjunctus (Pet.), taf. 11. 
fig. 6. 
Callula obscura, sp. n., from Ceylon : Gunther, p. 438. 
Fam. Hylaplesid^e. 
Dr. Steindachner (Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, 1864, p. 267) has identified 
Hylaplesia picta (Tschudi) with Hyla nigei'rima (Spix) and (p. 260) Fhyl- 
lohates auratus (Girard) with Dendrobates tinctorius (Wagl.). Both species 
are figured, the former on taf. 13. fig. 2, the second on taf. 16. fig. 2 and 
taf. 13. fig. 1. 
BATRACHIA GRADIENTIA. 
Chioglossa, g. n., Bocage, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 264. Tongue large, ob- 
long, attached to the lower jaw anteriorly, free on the sides and behind, fixed 
by a long pedicel in the middle. Two longitudinal series of palatine teeth, 
nearly confluent in front, parallel in the middle, and much divergent behind. 
Toes 4-6, the inqer one very short. No conspicuous parotoids; skin nearly 
smooth. No osseous temporo-fr’ontal arch. — Ch. lusitanica, pi. 21, from 
Coimbra. 
Salamandra maetdosa. Ritter von Frauenfeld relates two cases in which 
females of this species have been kept in solitary confinement during the 
winter, and brought forth young ones in February ; so that the copulation 
must evidently have taken place in the summer of the year preceding. Ver- 
handl. zool. hot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1864, p. 121. 
Triton igneus. This species is described at great length by M. Fatio, in 
Bibl. Univ. 1864, p. 276; he uses the name T. alpestris. It is, besides Sala- 
mandra atra, the only tailed Batrachian found in the Alpine region, and is 
common in the Upper Engadin. The author has found young examples 
which had passed the metamorphosis, bn land in the month of June ; they 
must evidently have belonged to the brood of the preceding yeai*, as it is well 
known that these Batrachians do not grow during the winter; but this 
simple explanation not being satisfactory to M. Fatio, he suggests that this 
species may possibly have adapted itself to the peculiar conditions of its 
elevated locality, and have become ovo-viviparous 1 Bibl. Univ. 1864, p.275. 
Cryptobranchus. Hyrtl gives notice that he is about to publish a memoir 
on the anatomy of this Batrachian, and states its contents. Sitzgsber. Acad. 
Wiss. Wien, 1864, vol. 60, June, p. 48. 
