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SALAMANDRA AURICULATA.—Holbrook. 
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Plate XII. 
Cuaracters. Head small, with a reddish-brown spot near the ear; body and 
tail cylindrical, with a series of minute reddish-brown spots on each side. 
Description. The head is small, rounded above and in front. The tongue is 
small, round, pediculated, and very movable. A thick group of minute teeth 
begin behind the posterior nares, and unite in the middle of the palate; behind 
this transverse row, after an interval of two lines, begins a longitudinal group, 
which soon subdivides into two lines, diverging more and more from each other 
near the posterior margin of the palate. 
The nostrils are small, lateral, and are wider apart than in the Salamanders 
generally. The eyes are prominent, but small; the pupil is black, the iris reddish- 
brown. -The neck is slightly contracted, with a small cutaneous fold at the 
throat. 
The body is long and cylindrical; the tail is long, round, but shghtly com- 
pressed at the tip. 
The anterior extremities are small, with four fingers, of which the third is the 
longest. The posterior extremities are also small, but thicker than the anterior; 
they each terminate in five toes, of which the third is the longest. 
Cotour. The Salamandra auriculata is dusky-brown above, rather darker 
