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SALAMANDRA BILINEATA.— Green. 

 Plate XXIX. 



Characters. Head small; body cylindrical; tail longer than the body, and 

 slightly compressed towards the tip. Colour above yellowish-brown, with a 

 black lateral line on each side; belly yellow. 



Sfnonymes. Salamandra bilineata,* Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 325. 

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



Description. The head is small, with the snout rather rounded than pointed. 

 The nostrils are lateral, though near the snout. The eyes are prominent; the 

 pupil black, with a golden iris. The neck is not contracted, but there is a slight 

 cutaneous fold at the throat. 



The body is cylindrical. The tail is also cylindrical, long, thick at the root, 

 but soon becomes slender, and is slightly compressed towards the tip. 



The anterior extremities are exceedingly small and delicate, and terminate in 

 four small fingers. The posterior are twice the size, and have five toes. 



Colour. The upper surface of the animal is yellowish-brown, with a black 

 lateral line on each side, which begins behind the orbit of the eye, and is continued 

 without interruption along the flanks, above the anterior and posterior extremities, 

 and is generally lost near the end of the tail. The inferior surface of the whole 



* From an error of the press, this stands Salamandra bislineata. 

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