Salamanders collected near Asiago, north of Vicenza (North-eastern Italy), were studied. From their morphological and embryological characteristic and electrophoretic patterns of haemoglobins and LDH isoenzymes they were interpreted as a possible new subspecies of Salamandra a h Law. ACKNO\VLEDGhlENTSWe are grateful to Prof. B. Lanza (Istituto di Anatomia Comparata, Biologia generale e Genetics dell'Universiti di Firenze, Direttore del hluseo zoologico) for the bibliographic advice and the taxonomic confirmation of the materials, and also to hlessrs G. Gnatta and L. Franzan for drawing our attention to the new form.