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prominences of the palate.— Toes 4: 5, free. — Tail compressed. 
—Male with a high toothed dorsal and caudal crest, interrupted 
over the loins. 
Lissotriton (part.) Bell, Brit. Rept. 141. 
1. OMMATOTRITON VITTATUS. 
Pale grey, closely black-spotted. Tail nearly black. Side of ab- 
domen and middle of tail with a broad white streak, beneath 
white. Throat black-dotted. Male in summer with a high 
toothed dorsal and caudal fin, the base interrupted over the 
loins. ‘Toes separate, webbed, slightly finned. 
Molge vittatus Gray, B. M. 1830. 
Triton vittatus Jenyns, Brit. Vert. 3085. ; Poe Mus. Paris, fide 
Guérin, Icon. Rég. Animal, 17. t. 28. f. 2. 
Lissotriton palmipes var. Bell, Brit. Rept. 141. fig. 
a—c. In spirits. Lycia? England? Presented by J. E. Gray, 
Esq. a. Specimen figured by Mr. Bell. 
According to M. Guérin this species is found in Lycia. Icon. 
Reég. Anim. p. 17. 
B. Tongue large, hinder half free. Toes 4:4.—Seiranotina. 
11. SEIRANOTA. 
Head angular. Eyes large. Nostrils lateral. Tongue large, ob 
long, cordate ; side edges, and hinder half free. Palatine teeth 
numerous, in two series, close, diverging and forming an equal- 
sided triangle behind. Teeth very minute. Parotid none. — 
Tail roundish, elongate. — Body densely warty. Back and tail 
with a bony crest.— Fingers and toes four, short, thick. — Ribs 
well developed, scarcely movable. 
Seiranota Barnes, Silliman’s Jour. xi. 2g 18.; Bonap. Fauna 
- Ttal. ii. 131., Amph. Eur. 33. j 
Salamandrina ‘Fitz. N. Class. 1826, S. ft. 33. ; ; Bonap. Fauna Ital. ; 
Gravenh. Del. Mus. Wrat. 88. 
Salamandra sp. Savi, Cuvier, R. A. ii. 115. 
1, SEIRANOTA PERSPICILLATA. 
Black. Head with a triangular reddish spot ; Heueare white, black- 
spotted; under part of thighs and tail reddish. 
Le Trois Doigts Lacép. Q. ov. 1496. t. 36.; Latr. Rept. ii, 258. f. 
Salamandra ter-digitata Bonn. Oph. t.  f. 
S. tridactyla Daud. Rept. viii. 261. 
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