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Show 1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON A NEW NEWT. 423 675. ATTAGEN MINOR (Gmel.). Pelecanus minor, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1788, i. p. 572. Tachypetes minor, Ibis, 1868, p. 56. Paracel Shoals. One shot at Amoy. NOTE.-In the Chinese Materia Medica (called ' Pun Tsao Kang Muh') I find in the figure of the Fe-seng, or " Flying Beast," a remarkable likeness to the fossil Archeeopteryx described by Prot. Owen. I will investigate this question on my present return to China. -R. S. 2. Description of a new Genus of Newts from Western Yunan. By JOHN ANDERSON, M.D., Curator of the Indian Museum, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Calcutta. [Received April 17, 1871.] TYLOTOTRITON *, n. g. Head flat, surrounded bv a prominent osseous ridge, with a short longitudinal ridge along the vertex. The bony orbit above the eye similar to that of Cynops, Pleurodeles, Euproctus, and Notophthal-mus Parotoids large, auriculoid, flattened from above downwards. Along the body a lateral line of equidistant, large, rounded, knoblike porous, glandular tubercles, terminating at the root of the tad. The' second to the fifth epipleural processes and the extremities of the remaining ribs terminate in the knob-like lateral glands. A broad porous vertebral ridge corresponding to the enlarged crests of the dorsal and sacral vertebrae. An obscure line of pores between the axilla and the groin, and a series of larger ones on the head. Skm finely tubercular. Tail as long as the body, laterally compressed, with sharp lower and upper margins. Limbs well developed. Fingers four toes five. Palatine teeth begin on a line with the internal nostrils, in two ridges meeting in front, but widely divergent behind. Maxillary teeth small, acute, on the inner edge of the jaw. longue of moderate size, suborbicular, adherent, and slightly free at the edges Vertebra*. 46. Ribs 16 : 13 dorsal, 1 sacral, 2 caudal. TYLOTOTRITON VERRUCOSUS, n. sp. Tbe lateral cranial ridge subtriangular ; the median ridge running backwards from the inside of the apex of the triangle, but not reach-ino- so far posteriorly as the lateral ridge, the extremities of which curve inwards like a scroll in front of the parotoids. 1 he parotoids sliehtlv concave above, and somewhat resembling the outline of an unturned human ear. The nostrils close to the extremity of the rounded snout, but with a considerable interval between them, * rv\u>T09, knobbed. |
