264 Say on Herpetology. 
niensis, although defective, as it indicates no character, has how- 
ever, the unalienable right of priority. : 
Salamandra subviolacea, Barton. ‘This name has been rejected 
by Mr. Daudin, and substituted by that of venenosa, I do not know 2 
for what reason, as none is assigned. oe 
Salamandra punctata, Gmel. ‘This appellation was originally 
given and restricted to the stelio of Catesby. tab. 10. (repre: 
sented in the bill of Ardea Herodias) and was adopted by ma- 
ny subsequent authors, but was finally rejected by Daudin, who 
considered the species the same as Barton’s sub iolacea. He 
concurred with Mr. Latreille in appropriating the name thus 
rejected to var. 8 of Lacerta, aquatica of Gmel. Notwithstand- — 
ing this high authority I cannot but coincide with Professor Bar- 
ton in this instance, in believing it altogether distinct. The sin- 
gle character of the subocellate spots, though not remarked by 
this author, is a sufficiently discriminative one ; these ocelle are 
always present, and in no one of the varieties I have seen has 
the approximation to the subviolacea been so considerable as to 
render aspecific discrepance equivocal. Catesby’s variety with 
the ; seems to be the least common; in gene! 
$ te ocelle, are exclusively confined to 2. 
line on each side of the back, about six in each, extending from 
the base of the head to the origin of the tail, though there are 
sometimes scattered smaller ones on each side of the body, and 
upon the vertex of the head, they are of a beautiful reddish 
color, enclosed by a definite black areola ; the upper part " 
_ the body is brownish, with numerous, distant black points, and @ 
slight vertebral, obtuse carina, the inferior surface of the 90% 
of a fine yellow or orange, with distant black points, the tail* 
compressed, ancipital, attenuated to an obtuse tip, longer | 
the body, and punctured with black in like manner. The YU" 
ger specimens vary considerably, in being, on many parts 7 
body, destitute of black punctures, and in having the dorsal and 
*Dr. Bart eee we rar ; = Pye (cauda teres,) this Sp 
was not autoptical, but dictated most probably by the appearance of Cates 
figure. Inthe young animal the tail is less compressed than in the old ones 
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