420 Sir Everard Home’s account of the 
sea is 8000 feet : they were all taken in the same week in the 
month of June : at that season they are so abundant as to 
form a principal part of the food of the peasantry,, One day 
in June Mr. Bullock saw them in the market in thousands 
for sale ; these were brought from a lake called Tesenco, the 
elevation of which above the sea is still higher than the other. 
A number of the natives were carrying them home 60 or 70 
in a string. 
Mr. Bullock was unable to procure any information re- 
specting them, not even the marks that distinguish the male 
from the female : no one had taken notice of their food, 
their ova, or of their young.* 
Among the specimens thus procured, some proved to be 
male, some female. The difference in the appearance of the 
external parts of generation is shown in the annexed draw- 
ings. Although in some respect similar to the Aquatic Sala- 
mander, they are by no means the same. In the male, at the 
time the testicles are developed, the external protrusion is 
greatest: it is composed of numerous fine membranous plicae, 
which are not so distinct when the internal organs are less 
developed. 
The testicles in situ are also shown, and are of a more 
delicate texture than in the Aquatic Salamander; but the other 
viscera in the abdomen bear a close resemblance to those 
in that animal, particularly the kidneys, and a large gland, 
which must be analogous to the vesiculse seminales, not 
being met with in the female. 
It is curious, that in the momentary contact which takes 
* From examining the contents of the stomach, they are found to feed ou 
snails and shrimps. 
