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SPOTTED WATER-NEWT. 



and consequently very remote from each other, 

 and not near so far backM^ard as the corners of 

 the mouth : the body is longish, moderately plump 

 or thick, and is pale brown, marked, in a conflu- 

 ent manner, with darker variegations : from the 

 fore to the hind legs runs an obscurely-elevated 

 lateral line : the legs are about an inch in length, 

 and both fore and hind legs are furnished along 

 the whole length of their back part with a dilated 

 skin or crest, which, just above each foot, is 

 sinuated by two pretty deep scollops or insections: 

 the tail resembles that of the common water-newt, 

 but is neither so long nor so deeply finned or 

 crested in proportion, and its termination is rather 

 obtuse than acute : the feet are very small : the 

 fore feet furnished with four, and the hind with 

 five toes, all destitute of claws, or at least the ap- 

 pearance of those parts is but very obscure. No 

 particular history is annexed to the specimen, nor 

 is its native place known. 



SPOTTED WATER-NEWT, 



Lacerta Maculata. L. nigricans, dorso longitudinaliter dvplici 



serie albo maculato. 

 Blackish Water-Newt, with a double row of white spots down 



the back. 



Lacerta punctata. Lin. Si/st. Nat. GmeL p. 107^. 

 Spotted Eft. Catesh. Car. Append, t. 10. 



This species, according to Catesby, is an inha- 

 bitant of ponds, ditches, and other stagnant waters 



