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Order IV. PSEUDOPHIDIA, Gray. 



Body elongate, subcylindrical. Limbs none. Skin smooth, wrinkled, with 

 minute imbedded scales. Tail extremely short. Vent open at the extremity 

 of the body. Gill-opening on the side of the neck closed in the adults. 

 Bones of skull united into a solid mass. Internal nostrils on the hinder 

 part of the palate, surrounded by bone. Jaws with a series of teeth. Palate 

 with an arched series of teeth in the centre parallel to the maxillary one 

 and before the internal nostrils. 



Genus ICHTHYOPHIS, Gray. 



398. The Glutinous Csecilia (Ichthyophia glutinosus, Gray ; Ccecilia glu- 



tinosa, Linn.). 



Fig. Cat. of Amphibia in Brit. Mus. p. 60. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Presented by James Marshall, ESQ. 



399. The Slender Ceecilia (Cacilia gracilis, Shaw). 



Fig. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 597. Gray, Cat. of Amphibia in 



Brit. Mus. p. 57, 1850. 

 Hob. South America. 



Order V. BATRACHIA. 



Skull formed of separate bones. Nostrils enclosed in a bony case ; the internal 

 nostrils opening on the sides of the middle of the palate. Gills of the young 

 (and rarely of the adult animals) well developed and exposed. Skin naked, 

 smooth. Tail often deciduous. Legs four, rarely only two. 



Suborder I. GRADIENTIA. 

 Body elongate, tapering, tailed. 



Family Salamandrida. 

 Genus TRITON. 



400. The Male Warty Newt (Triton cristatus, Laur., var. ; Lacerta 



verrucosa, Penn.). 

 Fig. Bell, Hist, of Brit. Kept. p. 119. 

 Hob. Europe. 



