Class III. WARTY LIZARD. 



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Lacertus aquaticus. Gefner 



qrmd. o-vip. 31. 

 Salamandra aqnatica. Raii 



fyn. quad. 273. 

 Lacerta paluftris. L. Cauda 



lin.fyfl. 370. 

 Skrot-abborre, GrufFgrabbe. 



Fauiu Suec. No. 281.' 

 Lacerta Americana. Seb. Muf, 



I. tab. 89. fg, 4, 5 



lanceolata mediocri, pedibus JSalamandra alepidota verruco- 

 muticis palmis tetradadylis. fa. Groncv. Zooph. No. 47c 



8, Warty^ 



THE length of this fpecies was fix inches and 

 an half, of which the tail was three and a 

 quarter. 



The irides yellow : the head and beginning of 

 the back flat, and covered with fmall pimples or 

 warts, of a dark dufky colo«^ ; the fides with white 

 ones : the belly, and the flde of the tail, v;as of 

 a bright yellow \ the fir(l fpotted with black. 



The tail was comprefTed fideways, and very thin 

 towards the upper edge, and flender towards the 

 end. 



The fore-feet divided into four toes -j the hind 

 into five ; all without nails, duilcy fpotted with 

 yellow. 



Its pace is flow and crawling. 



This fpecies we have frequently feen in the 

 ftate we defcribe, hui are uncertain whether we 

 ever met with it under the form of a krve, Wc 

 have more than once found under fl:ones and old 

 logs, fome very minute young lizards that had 

 much the appearance of this kind : they were 



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