Clas I. WARTY LIZARD. 15 
Il. The WARTY LIZARD. 
LLacertus aquaticus.  Ge/ner Skrot-abborre, Gruffgrabbe. | 
uad. ovip. 31. Faun. fuec. No. 281. 
BY coat ace Raii Wacerta Americana. Seb. Muf. 
Jyn. quad. 273. I, tab. 89. fig- 45 5+ 
Lacerta paluftris. L.caudalan- Salamandra alepidota verru- 
ceolata mediocri, pedibus cofa. Gronov. Zooph. Nos 
muticis palmis tetradactylis. 47° 
Lin. Jyft. 370. : 
HE length of this fpecies was fix inches and an 
oa half, of which the tail was three and a 
quarter. 
The irides yellow: the head and beginning of the 
back flat, and covered with {mall pimples or warts, of 
a dark dufky color; the fides with white ones: the 
belly, and the fide of the tail, was of a bright yel- 
low; the firft fpotted with black, 
The tail was compreffed fideways, and very thin 
towards the upper edge, and flender towards the end. 
_ The fore feet divided into four toes ; the hind in- 
to five; all without nails, dufky {potted with yellow, 
Its pace is flow and crawling, 
This {pecies we have frequently feen in the ftate 
we defcribe, but are uncertain whether we ever met 
with it under the form of a Jarve. We have more 
than once found under ftones and old logs, fome very 
minute young lizards that had much the appear- 
ance of this kind: they were perfectly formed, and 
had not the leaft veftiges of fins ; fo that circume 
{tance joined to their being found in a dry place, re- 
mote from water, makes us imagine them to have 
never 
