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SALAMANDRA LONGICAUDA.— Green. 



Plate XXVI. 



Characters. Head short; body elongated, lemon coloured above, and marked 

 with small, irregular, oblong, or round black spots; tail more than twice the length 

 of body, compressed at the sides, and marked with transverse black bands. 



Synontmes. Salamandra longicauda, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad.,vol. i. p. 351. 

 Salamandra longicaudata, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., ji. ^^. 



Description. The head is short, and the snout obtuse; the nostrils are lateral 

 and near the snout. The eyes are small, but prominent, the pupil black and the 

 iris golden. The chin and neck are smooth, with a slight cuticular fold at the 

 throat. The body is cylindrical, small and delicate. The tail is twice the length 

 of the body, compressed at the sides, and exceedingly thin and slender. 



The anterior extremities are rather long and slender; there are four delicate 

 fingers, distinct, and all nearly of the same length. The posterior extremities are 

 nearly twice the size of the anterior, with five distinct small toes. 



Colour. The head is lemon colour above, and the chin and throat nearly the 

 same. The body above is of similar colour, with numerous small irregular black 

 spots; the thorax and abdomen are yellowish-white. The tail is coloured like 

 the back, but here the black spots are lengthened into transverse bars. The 

 anterior, as well as the posterior extremities, are similar in colour above to the 

 back, below they are straw colour. 



