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SALAMANDRA CIRRIGER A.— Green. 



Plate XXV. 



Characters. Head short; snout rounded; two barbels to the upper jaAv, 

 between the nostrils and lip; body above pale yellow, mottled with black points, 

 and a dusky lateral line; tail compressed, longer than the body. 



Synonymes. Salamandra cirrigera, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. iv. p. 253. 

 Salamandra cirrigera, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 99. 



Description. The head is short, with the snout rounded or obtuse, and with 

 two barbels or cirri nearly one-fourth of an inch long, in life, projecting from 

 between the nostrils and upper lip. The nostrils are anterior and far removed. 

 The eyes are prominent and large, with a dusky pupil and golden iris. The 

 neck is contracted, and has a transverse cutaneous fold at the throat. 



The body is elongated, but tolerably robust. The tail is longer than the body, 

 compressed at the sides, tapering, and finally ends in a point. The anterior 

 extremities are small, delicate, and terminate in four fingers; the posterior are 

 larger, and sustain five toes. 



Colour. The head above is pale cream colour, tinged with red; the upper 

 jaw of similar colour, and the lower lip and throat nearly white. The back and 

 tail above are pale cream colour, with a tinge of reddish-brown, and speckled or 

 variegated with numerous small dusky points; a dusky interrupted lateral line 

 begins behind the eye on each side, runs along the flanks above the extremities, 

 and is finally lost near the tip of the tail; below this line the flanks are mottled 



