Class III. WARTY LIZARD. t$ 



Lacertus aquaticus. Gefner Lin. fyft. 370. S. Wart^ 



quad. o<vip. 31. Skrot-abborre, Gruffgrabbe. 



Salamandra aquatica. Rati Faun. Suec. No. 281. 



Jyn. quad. 273. Lacerta Americana. Seb. Mu/l 



Lacerta paluftris. L. Cauda I. tab. 89. fig. 4, 5. 



lanceolata mediocri, pedibus Salamandra alepidota vcrruco- 



muticis palmis tetrada&ylis. fa. Gronoqj. Zoopb. No. 47. 



THE length of this fpecies was fix inches and 

 an half, of which the tail was three and a 

 quarter. 



The irides yellow : the head and beginning of 

 the back flat, and covered with fmall pimples or 

 warts, of a dark dulky color $ the fides with white 

 ones : the belly, and the fide of the tail, was of 

 a bright yellow ; the firft fpotted with black. 



The tail was compreffed fideways, and very thin 

 towards the upper edge, and (lender towards the 

 end. 



The fore-feet divided into four toes ; the hind 

 into five -, all without nails, duiky fpotted with 

 yellow. 



Its pace is flow and crawling. 



This fpecies we have frequently feen in the 

 (late we defcribe, but are uncertain whether we 

 ever met with it under the form of a larve. We 

 have more than once found under ftones and old 

 logs, fome very minute young lizards that had 

 rauch the appearance of this kind : they were 



C 4 perfectly 



