466 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



UEODELA. AMPHIBIA WITH TAILS. 



Body elongated,, nearly round ; resemble the lizards in 

 shape, but their skin is naked, without either scales or 

 plates ; they have teeth in both jaws, and two rows on the 

 vomer. 



Fam. 3. TRITON, Laur. Newts. 



Tail (at least on the outer extremity) compressed at the 

 sides ; no porous swelling behind ; the eyes as in the last. 

 The male has, during the breeding season, a fin-like crest on 

 the back and tail, and a flap of skin on the upper lip ; front 

 toes four, back toes five. 



17. TEITON CRISTATUS, Laur. Storre Yatten Odla. The 



Common Warty Newt. 



Skin granulated ; colour above greenish black, covered 

 with more or less distinct black spots ; breast and belly 

 bright orange yellow, with large round black spots; 

 sides strewed with white spots ; the lateral comb in 

 the male broken over the loins, and deeply serrated. 

 The female during the breeding season has a very slight 

 dorsal ridge; length 5 in. 4 1., of which the tail is 

 2 in. 1 1. 



Is not uncommon certainly in the middle and south of 

 Sweden. I cannot say how far north it goes, but I never 

 met with a newt of any kind in Lapland. 



] 8. T. ALPESTRIS, Laur. Brunn Odla. 



Skin granulated ; colour above slate ; below reddish 

 yellow, with a row of black spots along each side of the 

 belly ; usual length 4^- in. 



Has as yet only been met with in one place in Scandi- 

 navia. Not far from Landekrona, in the south. 



I have heard it doubted whether this is anything more 

 than a variety of the last. Bonaparte, Bibron, Dumerel, 

 and Schinz consider it a good and distinct species, but I 

 believe Swedish naturalists are now decided that it is not so. 



19. T. PUNCTATUS, Cuv. Mindre Yatten Odla. Common 

 Smooth Newt. 



