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other, leaving a wide interspace; eyes prominent; no parotids ; the fingers and toes 

 palmated at base ; skin smooth ; tail of moderate length. 



Geotkiton* fuscus. 



Char. — " Brown with reddish lines almost effaced ; ash color below, with small 

 white points ; tail a little shorter than the body, large at its base and almost round ; 

 fingers short, slightly palmated and depressed." — D. & B. Length 3i inches. 



Habitat. — Appenines, Sardinia, Tuscany, Spain, Southern Italy. 4 specimens Mus. 

 Acad., Dr. Wilson, Bonap. collection. 



AMBYSTOMA, Tschudi. 



Char. — Head large, thick, convex, palatine teeth in a transverse row, passing 

 entirely across the palate, behind the internal nares, nearly straight, (tigrinum,) irregu- 

 lar, interrupted, forming three distinct patches, (fasciatum et laterale,) obliquely triangu- 

 lar, the apex forward, (nebulosum,) more nearly straight, (ingens,) barred and more or 

 less interrupted, arched in the middle posteriorly, in three distinct groups, [punctatum 

 venenosum, Bart.,) tongue ovate, moderately free at its edges, slightly so in front, 

 attached posteriorly ; internal nares small in some species, larger in others ; no 

 sphenoidal teeth ; tail more or less compresed, slightly in venenosum and fasciatum, 

 very much in tigrinum, ingens, nebulosum and laterale, most in tigrinum and ingens ; 

 fingers and toes free, more or less depressed ; skin smooth. 



1. Ambystoma punctatum. 



Char. — " Body and tail above bluish black, with a row of round or oval yellow spots 

 on each side ; under surface bluish black, tinged with purple." — Holbrook. 



Length 51 inches- 



Habitat. — Massachusetts, Vermont, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, 

 (Abbeville.) 



Specimens in Mus. Acad. N. S. presented by Dr. Wilson, Bonap. col., Dr. Hol- 

 brook, Dr. Bache. 



Syn. 1731. Catesby. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and Bahama 

 Islands, torn. ii. tab. 10, fig. 2. Spotted Eft; Stellio aquaticus ;j| Minor Americanus. 



1767. Petiver. Gazophylacium Naturee et Artis. Decas vii. et viii., tab. 79, fig, 

 14. Carolina Salamander, Cat. 535, upper view; Decas x. fig. 2, under view. 



1766. Systema Naturee, Linn., edit. 13 ; Reformata Holmiae, 48, L. punctata. 



1788. Lacerta punctata, Linn. ; Edit, decima tertia, Gmelin, Lepsius, p. 1076, 

 No. 45. 



1788. L. punctatum, Lacepede. Hist. Nat. des Quad, ovipares et serpens, 4to t. i. 



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