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SALAMANDRA ERYTHROxNOTA.— Green. 



Plate XL 



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, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 95. 

 Salamandra cinerea, Harlan, loc. cit., p. 95. 



Description. The head is short, and the snout rather pointed. The mouth is 

 small; the tongue is sub-round, rather large, flat, thin, attached posteriorly, and 

 free only at its lateral margins; less so in front. A group of minute teeth begins 

 behind each of the posterior nares, and runs backwards and inwards until they 

 meet; thence they are continued along the middle of the palate to its posterior 

 part, the group being broadest behind. 



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 is 

 smooth, with a transverse cutaneous fold at the throat. 



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

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

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

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



