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to ai)proach nearly to the brightly- colom-ed variety just 

 described, and is said by Prince Buonaparte to occur in 

 Italy, near Home, Ostia, Castcl-Fusano, in the Bolognese 

 territory, and Pisa ; also in Spain, France, Germany, and 

 Switzerland. 



T. marmoratus inhabits many of the warmer parts of 

 Europe, such as Spain and France, more particularly the 

 Southern Departments ; it has, however, been found near 

 Paris, and in Smtzerland, near Berne. Is very common 

 about Bordeaux. 



Triton Pyrenseus. 



Triton Tyrenmis, Duji. et Bib. vol. ix. p. 139. 



Desceiption. — Body covered with w^arts and pointed tu- 

 bercles ; these latter are generally distinct from each other, 

 but over the eyes are crowded together and smaller than 

 elsewhere ; on the sides the skin contracts into transverse 

 folds, and the warts on those parts are, as it were, cut into 

 facets and arranged in lines ; all along the back and tail is 

 a line, which, in spirits, is duU yellow, but in the living 

 animal is doubtless much brighter ; upon its smface are 

 several projecting black spots, and its borders are irregu- 

 larly notched \A\h the brown which pervades the sides ; the 

 eyes very prominent ; the tail much compressed ; all the 

 under parts and the tips of the fore-toes are reddish yellow, 

 these last being covered with large tubercles ; the lower 

 half of the tail is also reddish yellow : the unusually rough 

 and rugged skin makes this small species very remarkable. 

 The length, as given in the ' Erpetologie Generale,' from 

 a specimen in spirits, is 9 centimetres, equal to about 3|- 

 English inches. The author of that work supposes the 

 T. cinereus of Tschudi, T. Bihroni of BeU, as well as the 

 T. ruf/osus and T. repandus of Duges, to be merely varieties 

 of the present species. 



