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SALAMANDRA FASCIATA.— 6Vee«. 



Tlate XXIII. 



Characters. Head short, broad; snout large and rounded; body and tail 

 above palest ash colour, with irregular, transverse bluish-black blotches on the 

 back, and bars on the tail; throat and abdomen indigo blue; tail length of body, 

 compressed laterally and pointed at the tip. 



Stnonymes. Salamandra fasciata, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 350. 

 Salamandra fasciata, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 94. 



Description. The head is large, short, thick, and rounded in front. The 

 nostrils are lateral and near the snout. The eyes are very prominent, with the 

 pupil black and the iris dark grey. The sldn of the chin and neck is smooth, 

 with a transverse fold in front of the anterior extremities. 



The body is cylindrical and robust, smooth both above and below; the tail is 

 thick, rounded on its superior and inferior surface, though a little compressed at 

 the sides. 



The anterior extremities are short and rather stout, with four fingers, distinct; 

 the posterior are nearly twice the size of the anterior, and have five toes, the 

 third and fourth longest. 



Colour. The head is palest ash colour above, with two or three bluish-black 

 blotches, the largest about the occiput; the upper jaw is bluish-black, and the 



