THE nATRACniA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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pressed and narrowed in seiitiou below. No prominent glandular ag- 

 glomerations or pores. Only three jdialanges in the fourth toe. 



Form of head peculiar. It is very broad, with straight converging 

 maxillary outlines and truncate muzzle; upper surface nuich narrowed 

 on nuizzle; loreal regions plane, very oblique; canthus rostralis not 

 miirked. Maxillary outline oblicpiely spread at and behind orbits, 

 where it is exceeded by the projecting margin of the mandible. Ante- 

 riorly, and at the end of the nui/.zle, it [>roje(!ts considerably beyon<l man- 

 dible. Muzzle truncate in i>rohU^; a slight euiarginaticni at middle of 

 premaxillary Ixu'der, and a groove on vm'.U side of it on inferior pro- 

 jecting ftice of lip. Nares terminal, some distance above the angulatioii 

 of the lii>, continued below in a groove, which bifurcates near lip mar- 

 gin ; the posterior line exti'iiding a short distance, the anterior to the 

 median ennirgination separating the anterior from the inferi.n* plane of 

 the muzzle. Kyo. large, not very prominent; its anterior canthus well 

 in front of ndddle of Jaw, and 8e|)arated one diameter from nostril and 

 1.5 from the other eye. 



No f'^ld acaoss front angle to angle of mandible, but the gular, pnro- 

 toid, and postoibital grooves well marked. Costal grooves indistinct; 

 !.'{. Skin everywhere very smootii. 



Tail longer than head and body by the length of the mouth. Width 

 at (Mirves of niiiiidible 4.0 times in length to groin. Extremities slen- 

 der and long; when pressed to the si<les the lingers extend to the heel. 

 Length of wliole fore lind» 2.7-j times in length to groin. Inner tinger 

 very sunill, half the length of the fourth; third longer than second. 

 Sole narrow ; longer than longest toes. Inner toe less than half the 

 tifth; third a tritl(> longer thiin fourth; s(>cond much longer than tiftii. 

 Lower leg .7"» thigh to groin. 



Patches of parasphenoiibd teeth, two in conta<^t anteriorly, well 

 separated front palatines. All the teeth minute, mnnerous, acute 

 cylindro c(uii«'. Tongue with ratlu'r straight lateral and posterior out- 

 lines. 



(\)1(M' tlu'oughout pitchy itbick, fading into bright red orange below ; 

 limbs orange, a blackish cross baiul below tlie knee. A large red- 

 orange si»ot on «>acli paroroid region, and tbursniiiller, irregular, similar 

 spots on the body to base of tail on each side of and near the vertebral 

 line. A pair of orange spots at base of tail and a distant seiies on the 

 upper face of the tail. 



Ilesides the type, a specimen of this species was obtained at Cape St. 

 Lucas, in Lower CaIiforui;», and I have seen om^ from near San Diego, at 

 the northern end of that peninsula. As the typical specimen was 

 ifouiid at Fort Tejon, Cal., the range (»f the species is extensive. 



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