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SALAMANDRA RUBRA.— Daudin. 



Plate IX. 



Characters. Head short; snout rounded; eyes prominent; body above red, 

 with numerous small black points; flanks red, immaculate; abdomen orange-red, 

 immaculate. 



SrNONTMES. Salamandra rubra, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. viii. p. 227, pi. xcii. 

 fig. 2. 

 Salamandra rubra, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. iv. p. 305. 

 Salamandra rubriventris, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 353. 

 Salamandra rubriventris, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 97. 

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

 Salamandra maculata, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 96. 

 Salamandra sub-fusca, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 351. 

 Salamandra fusca, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien., vol. i. p. 357. 

 Salamandra fusca, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 96. 



Description. The head is rather large, with the snout rounded; the mouth is 

 small; the tongue round, attached by a short pedicle, but is very movable. The 

 palate is armed with a series of minute teeth that begin on each side behind, and 

 without the posterior nares, which are very small; these run first inwardly, but do 

 not meet in the middle of the palate, as they suddenly turn backwards in a 

 longitudinal direction, the two series separating from each other more and more 

 posteriorly. 



The nostrils are antero-superior and near the snout. The eyes are prominent. 



