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SALAMANDRA ERYTHRONOTA.— Grm*. 



Plate XXVII. 



Characters. Head short, snout obtuse; body cylindrical, with a broad reddish- 

 brown vertebral band from the snout to the end of the tail; flanks yellowish-brown; 

 abdomen white; tail shorter than the body, tapering and pointed. 



Synontmes. Salamandra erythronota, Green, Jour. Acad, Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 356. 

 Salamandra cinerea, Green, Loc. cit., vol. i. p. 356. 

 Salamandra erythronota, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 95. 

 Salamandra cinerea, Harl., Loc. cit., p. 95. 



Description. The head is short, the snout rather pointed; the nostrils are 

 lateral and near the snout. The eyes are small, but very prominent; the pupil 

 black, the iris copper-colour. The skin on the chin and throat is smooth. The 

 body is cylindrical and slender; and the tail round at its root, and terminating in 

 a point. The anterior extremities are very delicate, and terminate in four fingers, 

 the inner one very short; the posterior are much larger, and end in five toes, 

 distmct, the internal as well as the external very short. 



Colour, The head above is reddish-brown, the upper and lower jaw tinged 

 with yellow. The back is marked with a broad vertebral band of reddish-brown, 

 which extends to near the tip of the tail; below this the flanks are yellowish-brown, 

 as well as the sides of the tail. The anterior and posterior extremities are 

 yellowish-brown above. The whole inferior surface of the animal, body, tail and 

 extremities, is dusky-white. 

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