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than the temporary frog, and nearly of the same co- 

 lour. The body is tuberculated, and the feet web- 

 bed ; the fore feet have four toes and the hinder 

 five, all furnished with small nails almost impercepti- 

 ble. It is called by the Araucanians genco^ which 

 signifies lord of the water, as they believe that it 

 watches over the preservation and contributes to the 

 salubrity of the waters. The thaul is less than the 

 common or green frog which it resembles in its form. 

 Its skin is yellow and covered with tubercles, and its 

 feet are shaped like those of the arunco, but not pal- 

 mated. 



The most remarkable of the terrestrial lizards is 

 the pallum (lacerta pallum) of whose skin the pea- 

 sants make their purses. This lizard lives usually 

 under ground in the plains ; its length, exclusive of 

 the tail, is a little more than eleven inches, and it is 

 three inches in circumference ; the tail is as long as 

 the body, the head triangular, covered with small 

 square scales, the nose very long, the ears round and 

 like those of all lizards, placed at the hinder part of 

 the head. The upper part of its body is covered 

 with small rhomboidal scales, green, yellow, black 

 and blue ; the skin of the belly is smooth and of a 

 yellowish green ; the feet have each five toes, fur- 

 nished with strong nails, and the tail is round and 

 of the same colour as the body. 



Of the aquatic lizard but one species has been 

 discovered, to which Feuille, who saw it, has given 

 the name of the water salamander (salamandra aqua- 

 tica nigra). It is fourteen inches and a half in length, 

 including the tail ; the skin is without scales, rough 



