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SALAMANDRA GLUTINOSA .—Green. 



Plate XXX. 



Characters. Head large, semi-oval; tail cylindrical, nearly twice the length 

 of body. Colour above bluish-black, with a few minute white spots on the back 

 and tail, and larger and frequently confluent white spots on the flanks. 



Stnontmes. Salamandra glutinosa, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 357. 

 Salamandra variolata, Gilliams, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 460. 

 Salamandra cylindracea, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 94. 



Description. The head is large and approaches a semi-oval form; the snout 

 is rather pointed than rounded. The nostrils are lateral, and near the mouth. 

 The eyes are large and prominent; the pupil black; the iris dusky. The neck is 

 slightly contracted, with a large cutaneous fold at the throat. 



The body is elongated and cylindrical. The tail is nearly twice the length of 

 the body, cylindrical, or almost imperceptibly compressed at its tip. 



The anterior extremities sustain four fingers. The posterior are twice the size 

 of the anterior, and terminate in five toes. 



Colour. The ground colour of this animal is a beautiful bluish-black over the 

 whole superior surface, along the back and tail, and is sparsely dotted with 

 minute white spots, more or less abundant; on the flanks and sides of the tail 

 these spots are much larger and frequently confluent: sometimes specimens occur 



