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SALAMANDRA RVBRA.—Dai<din. 



Plate XXVII. 



Characters. Head short; snout rounded; eyes prominent; body above red, 

 with numerous small black points; flanks red, immaculate; abdomen orange-red, 

 immaculate. 



Synonymes. Salamandra rubra, DaucL, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. viii. p. 227, pi. xcii. 

 fig. 2. 

 Salamandra rubra, Latr., Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. iv. p. 305. 

 Salamandra rubriventris. Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., vol. i. p. 353. 

 Salamandra rubriventris, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 97. 



Description. The head is rather large, with the snout rounded; the nostrils 

 are latero-anterior. The eyes are prominent, with the pupil black and the iris 

 golden and large. The neck is not much contracted, and has a marked cutaneous 

 fold at the throat. 



The body is cylindrical and stout; the anterior extremities are small, and are 

 furnished with four fingers; the posterior are larger, and have five toes. The tail 

 is shorter than the body, thick at the root, but soon becomes tapering, ends in a 

 point, and is compressed laterally. 



Colour. The whole superior surface of the animal is red, with a few scattered 

 black points about the head, and becoming very numerous along the back and 

 tail; the flanks are brighter red and immaculate; the whole inferior surface of 

 the animal is orange-red; the extremities are coloured like the flanks above, and 

 like the abdomen below, but rather less bright. 



