284 Barnes on Batracian Animals and doubtful Reptis. 
(b) Opercula fimbriated. abi 
9 GENUS.—Prorevus. Laurenti. 
Legs four. ‘Foes clawless. 
Teeth in both jaws, small and numerous. 
Body lengthened, terminated: by a vertically compresseé 
tail. 
SPECTES. 
i. Proreus Ancuinus. Proteus. of Carniola 
Toes, three: before and two behind. _ 
Teeth, one row above and one below. 
Spiracles, three on each side. 
Length, thirteen inches, bredth one inch, 
Figures. Humboldt’s Voyage. Configliachi. Brewster's 
Encyc. pl. 298, fig. 23. Daud. 99, fig. 1. Rees’s Cyclo~ 
pedia, art. Amphibia, pl. 6, fig. 2. sig 
Synonyms. Proteus anguinus. Laurenti, Schneider, 
et aliorum. 
Siren anguina. Shaw’s Gen. Zool. III. p. 608. 
ypocthon Laurentii. Merrem. Sys. Amp. p- 188+ 
Serpentine Proteus. Anguine Siren. Anglorum- 
Le Protee anguillard. Daudin. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Body long and slender, terminated by a vertically com- 
pressed tail, forming a fin, and rounded at the end; tongue 
and even. Sides wrinkled cirseae gC Color pale rose oF 
ers. Its motions, when out of the water, are slow and lan- 
and without feet.+ Its note resembles the sound made 
* Hence it Iti 
‘sivas. beams the multiversant sea-gad- 
