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SALAMANDRA GUTTO-LINEATA. 



Description. The head is short and thick, with the snout rounded. The 

 mouth is rather large; the tongue is round or mushroom shaped, attached by a 

 small pedicle in the centre, and is very movable. The palate is armed with 

 numerous and minute teeth; a transverse series begins on each at the internal 

 and posterior margin of the posterior nares; run inward and backward and 

 unite in the middle of the palate; behind these teeth, and after a smooth space of 

 a line, begins a broad longitudinal group that occupies the centre of the palate, 

 increasing in breadth posteriorly. 



The nostrils are antero-superior near the snout, and open upwards. The eyes 

 are large and prominent, with a black pupil and a flame-coloured iris. The neck 

 is but slightly contracted, and has a distinct transverse fold at the throat. 



The body is elongated and cylindrical. The anterior extremities are small, 

 and terminate in four fingers; the posterior are larger and stronger, and end in 

 five toes. The tail is round, and very long. 



Colour. The head is yellow above, mottled with black; the upper jaw yel- 

 lowish, the lower whitish. The neck, body, and tail above are straw-colour; 

 behind each orbit begins an indistinct line of black, which unite half an inch back 

 of the occiput, and form a large vertebral line, which is extended to one inch 

 beyond the posterior extremities; from the snout runs a black band through the 

 lower part of the iris, along the flank, to near the end of the tail; beneath this is 

 a white line, extending from the an^le of the mouth alons the flanks above the 



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anterior and posterior extremities to about midway of the tail. The whole 

 inferior surface of the neck, abdomen and tail, below the lateral white line, is 

 dark grey. The superior surface of the anterior and posterior extremities is 

 yellow; both the arms and the thighs have a black line on their posterior faces; 

 the latter a white line, continuous with the white lateral one already described. 



Dimensions. Length of head, 7 lines; length of body to vent, 2 inches; length 

 of tail, 4 inches 4 lines: total length, G inches 11| lines. 



