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PALMATE NEWT. 



(Lophinus palmatus, Dum. and Bibr.) 



THIS species is said to be the most common 

 newt around Paris, and Lord Clermont states 

 that it occurs in many parts of Germany, near 

 Vienna, and elsewhere. It is common in the 

 south of France, but rare in Switzerland. In 

 Italy it has been found near Rome and about Pisa. 

 To this M. Deby adds more explicitly, that it 

 was found ' ' by Fournelle in the department de 

 la Moselle, by Sturm in Germany, by Razou- 

 mowski in Switzerland, by Latreille in France, 

 and by De Selys, Van Haesendonck, and myself, 

 in Belgium/'* 



The specimens described and figured in the 

 first edition of BelFs " Reptiles " as the Palmated 

 Smooth Newt (Lissotriton palmipes), do not re- 

 present a genuine species at all, but a variety of 



* 'The Zoologist, p. 2231. 

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