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angvina 38 
Column. Ecphr. 1. p. 35.t. XXXVI. Seps, chalcid lizard or chalcides 37 . 
Aldr. quadr. 638. Chalcidic lizard. 
Lives in southern Europe and Africa. 
Midway between the lizards and the snakes, but equipped with ears. 
43. Lizard with a tail somewhat stiff at its end; striped body 39 ; pinniform feet. 
Seb. mus. 2. t. 68. f. 6. 7. A serpentiform worm out of Africa. 
Lives on the Cape of Good Hope. It has not been seen by me. 
106. RAN A. 
Body tetrapod, naked, tailless. 
Pipa 
1. Frog with stubby, four-toothed front feet, clawed rear feet. 
Mus. Ad. Fr. 1. p. 49. The same frog. 
Gron. mus. 2. p. 84. n. 64. 
Seb. mus. 1. p. 121. t. 77. f. 1-4.Toad or American pipa. 40 
Vincent, pip. 1726. t. 62. Surinam aquatic toad. 
Bradl. nat. t. 22. f. 1. Surinam frog. 
Vallisn. nat. 1. t. 41. /. 6. 
Lives in Surinam. 
It hatches its young by laying them on its back. 
Bufo 
2. Frog with a dark and pale, warty, swollen body. 
Fn. svec. 253. Frog with split, four-toed front feet; rear feet palmate, six-toed 41 ; 
fairly short thumb. 
It. oe/. 142. 
Gesn. pise. 807. Rubeta or phrynum 42 
Jonst. quadr. 
Bradl. nat. t. 21. f. 2. 
Raj. quadr. 252. Toad or rubeta. 
It lives in shady, wooded, stony areas of Europe, especially in Ukrainia. 
It is eaten by the buteo falcon. Gesn. pise. 807. 
The warts exude a milky substance and are poisonous if drunk, touched, or 
inhaled. It delights in Cotula, Actaea, Stachys foetida , 43 It is viviparous, with, so 
they say, the male acting as midwife. It lures insects into its mouth through 
bewitchment. It is nocturnal and a digger. 
The front feet in most species of Ranae are split and four-toed. The rear feet are five-toed and palmate, 
less frequently indistinctly six-toed 41 . 
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Rubeta 
3. Frog with a warty body; obtuse anus; dotted with black below. 
Syst. Nat. 37. n. 5. Frog with split, four-toed front feet; subpalmate rear feet; 
anus dotted below. 
It. Wgot. 261. 
Lives in Europe. 
gibbosa 
4. Frog with an ovate-convex body; a longitudinal ash-gray dentate stripe; 
split feet. 
Amoen. acad. 1. p. 286.Frog with four-toed split front feet; six-toed 41 split rear 
