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to approach, nearly to the hrightly-coloured variety just 

 described, and is said by Prince Buonaparte to occur in 

 Italy, near Eome, Ostia, Castel-Fusano, in the Bolognese 

 territory, and Pisa ; also in Spain, France, Germany, and 

 Switzerland. 



T. marmoratus inhabits many of the warmer parts of 

 Europe, such as Spain and Prance, more particularly the 

 Southern Departments ; it has, however, been found near 

 Paris, and in Switzerland, near Berne. Is very common 

 about Bordeaux. 



Triton Pyrenaeus. 



Triton Pyrenmts, Dum. et Bib. vol. ix. p. 139. 



Description-. — Body covered with warts and pointed tu- 

 bercles ; these latter are generally distinct from each other, 

 but over the eyes are crowded together and smaller than 

 elsewhere ; on the sides the skin contracts into transverse 

 folds, and the warts on those parts are, as it were, cut into 

 facets and arranged in lines ; all along the back and tail is 

 aline, which, in spirits, is dull yellow, but in the living 

 animal is doubtless much brighter ; upon its surface are 

 several projecting black spots, and its borders are irregu- 

 larly notched with the brown which pervades the sides ; the 

 eyes very prominent ; the tail much compressed ; all the 

 under parts and the tips of the fore-toes are reddish yellow, 

 these last being covered with large tubercles; the lower 

 half of the tail is also reddish yellow : the unusually rough 

 and rugged skin makes this small species very remarkable. 

 The length, as given in the ' Erpetologie Generale,' from 

 a specimen in spirits, is 9 centimetres, equal to about 3f 

 English inches. The author of that work supposes the 

 T. cinerem of Tschudi, T. Bibroni of Bell, as well as the 

 T. rugosus and T. rerpandus of Duges, to be merely varieties 

 of the present species. 



