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SALAMANDRA GUTTO-LINEATA. 



Plate XII 



Characters. Head short and thick; snout obtuse; body straw colour above, 

 with a vertical line of black, bifurcating behind the occiput, a lateral black band, 

 in which is a row of white spots, and beneath this a white line. Tail nearly twice 

 as long as the head, neck, and body. 



Description. The head is short and thick; the snout rather obtuse, and the 

 nostrils anterior; the body is elongated and cylindrical; the tail is very long, thick 

 and rounded at its root, but soon becomes small, compressed, and pointed at its 

 extremity. 



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

 are larger and stronger, and end in five toes. 



Colour. The head is yellow above, mottled with black; the upper jaw yel- 

 lowish, the lower whitish; the eyes are full and prominent; the pupil black; the 

 upper part of the iris flame-coloured, the lower black. The neck, body, and tail 

 above are straw colour; behind each orbit begins an indistinct line of black, which 

 unite half an inch back of the occiput, and form a large vertebral line, which is 

 extended to one inch beyond the posterior extremities; from the snout runs a black 

 band through the lower part of the iris, along the flank, to near the end of the 

 tail; beneath this is a white line extending from the angle of the mouth along the 

 flanks above the anterior and posterior extremities, to about midway of the tail. 

 The whole inferior surface of the neck, abdomen and tail, below the lateral white 



