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SALAMANDRA QUADRIDIGITATA.— /Zo/6/oo/t. 



Plate XXI. 



Characters. Head large; body long and slender; tail very long; fingers four; 

 toes four. 



Description. The head is very large for the size of the animal, with the snout 

 full and rounded. The tongue is round, flattened, and sustained on a short 

 pedicle. There are a few scattered exceedingly minute teeth just behind and 

 between the posterior nares. 



The nostrils are latero-anterior, and near the extremity of the snout. The 

 eyes are large and prominent, with a dusky iris and a golden pupil. The neck is 

 smaller than the head, with a narrow cutaneous fold at the throat. 



The body is much elongated and cylindrical. The tail is very long, round, or 

 is compressed only towards its tip. The anterior extremities are very small, and 

 are provided with four minute fingers; the posterior are rather larger, with four 

 toes, equally minute. 



Colour. The whole animal above is pale straw-colour, with a few minute 

 dark brown spots or vertebral lines; the flanks are marked with an irregular 

 series of dark brown spots, sometimes approaching a lateral line; the abdomen is 

 bluish silvery-white. 



Dimensions. Length of head, 4 lines; length of body, 1 inch; length of tail, 

 2 inches: total length, 3 inches 4 lines. 



