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SALAMANDRA YENENOSA.— Barton. 



Plate XXIV. 



Characters. Head moderate, snout slightly rounded; body and tail above 

 bluish-black, with a row of round or oval yellow spots on each side from the head 

 to the tip of the tail; under surface bluish-black. 



Synontmes. Salamandra venenosa, Bart., in Daud. Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. viii. p. 229. 

 Salamandra subviolacea, Bart., Trans. Amer. Pliil. Soc, vol. vi. p. 112, pi. iv. fig. 6. 

 Salamandra subviolacea, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 93. 



Description. The head is of moderate size, with the snout a little more pointed 

 than in the Salamanders generally; the nostrils are lateral and near the snout. 

 The eyes are small, but prominent; the pupil black, the iris darkest grey. The 

 skin of the chin and neck is smooth and cast into a large transverse fold. The 

 body is elongated, but tolerably thick, and covered with a smooth skin. The tail 

 is cylindrical at the root, soon becomes compressed laterally, and terminates in a 

 point. The anterior extremities are small, and terminate in four fingers, all nearly 

 of the same length; the posterior are larger, and end in five toes, the third and 

 fourth longest. 



Colour. The head is bluish-black above, with four or five round orange spots; 

 a small one is at the back of each orbit, and another behind the temples; both the 

 upper and lower jaw is black; the chin and throat are bluish-black. The whole 

 superior surface of the back, as well as the tail, is black, with a row of yellow 

 spots, round or oblong, on each side, extending to the tip of the tail. The thorax, 

 abdomen, and under surface of the tail, are bluish-black. The superior surface of 

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