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darker colored black marking within its circumfer- 
ence. Mouth, large. Post tympanal glands large, 
equal in length to the distance between them. Eyes 
large; pupils black; irides beautifully reticulated 
with black and golden; eyelids tuberculated. Be- 
tween the eyes, on the top of the head, a yellowish 
white line commences, which terminates at the pos- 
terior extremity of the body. 
The extremities above, of the same color as the 
back; beneath, the color of the abdomen. A few 
small dark colored blotches upon the anterior extrem- 
ities ; larger spots, sometimes transverse, upon the 
posterior. Fingers four in number, short, free. Toes 
five in number, semipalmated ; the second, much the 
longest; a large tubercle beneath, resembles some- 
what a sixth toe. 
Satamanpra. Brogniart. 
Generic characters. Body elongated ; tail long ; 
extremities four; fingers four; toes five; no tym- 
panum; numerous small teeth in the jaws and 
palate ; tongue as in frogs ; no sternum ; ribs rudi- 
mental ; pelvis suspended by ligaments. — 
a 
S. erythronota. Green. The red-bac ed Sala- 
miller: F- 
Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, vol. i. p. 356. 
Harlan’s Med. and Phys. Res. p. 95. 
N. A. Herpet. vol. iii. p. 113, et fig. 
This beautiful and quite common species presents 
the following characters: My description is drawn 
