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broad fold of skin on each side from head to hind legs. Longest toe scarcely 
webbed beyond the penultimate joint. 
Above dark olive, with rather large circular black blotches distributed pretty 
uniformly, though smaller on the sides. Each spot is lighter in the centre. 
Beneath yellow, marbled with dark brown, thickly crowded except about the 
groins. <A pale greenish line extends from just below the eye to the shoulder. 
Hind limbs broadly barred with dark brown. Lateral cuticular fold paler, a 
black blotch at the base of the arm in front. 
Darker above and below, smoother, and with the snout more acute than in 
Rana Dayton. 
Length 2} inches. Hind limbs 33. 
Hiab. San Francisco. 
5. ANEIDES LuGuBRIS Baird. Iconographic Encyclopedia, If, 1859, (1st ed.) 
256. Salamandra lugubris, Hallow., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phila., [V., 1848, 
126. 
Has.—San Francisco. 
6. BaTRACHOSEPS ATTENUATA Bon. Fauna ital., 1841. Bairp, Journ. Acad. 
Nat. Sc., Phila., 1, 1849, 288. Salamandra atienuata, Eschsch. Zool. atl., 1853, 
pl. xxi. fig. 1—14. 
Hab.—San Francisco. 
7. Taricua tavis B.andG. Allied to T. tovosa Gray, but smoother, having 
but slight indications of granulations. Tail very much compressed, with a 
fringe along the whole upper edge and the posterior half of the lower. Color 
above dark purplish brown, beneath bright yellow, the line of demarcation very 
distinct. Body 3 inches long ; tail 43. 
Hab.—San Francisco. 
The Committee on a paper by the Rev. Mr. Berkley and the Rev. 
M. A. Curtis, on the “ Exotic Fungi from the Schweinitzian Herbarium, 
&e.,” reported in favor of publication in the Journal. 
The Report of the Corresponding Secretary was read and adopted. 
ELECTION. 
Mr. H. Cooper Hanson, of Philadelphia, was elected a Member of the 
Academy. 
