BATH AC H I. A NS 
BY 
JOHN EDWARD GRAY, F. R. S. &c. 
Beechey’s salamander. Salamandra Beecheyi. t. 31. /• 3. Gray in Griffith . 
Trans. Anim. Kingd. App. 
Above black, smooth, with scattered elevated roundish granular tubercles. The chin, throat, abdomen 
and under side of the hind legs and tail, yellow, mingled with very minute pale, immersed dots, which are 
larger on the sides of the body and throat, where they appear to be pierced with a pore. Vent with a black 
cross band. The head is depressed, rounder in front, and very wide behind. The tail is rather longer than 
the head and body, rounded at the base, and compressed at the end, with a yellow slightly elevated keel 
along its upper and lower edge. The limbs moderate. The toes, four before and five behind, depressed, 
and separate ; the inner ones of all the feet are very short, and rudimentary ; the outer ones rather longer, 
but shorter than the central ones, which are nearly equal. 
The skin of the upper part of the body and head, when the epidermis, which appears to be very 
fugacious, is taken off, is whitish, with very minute black specks, and the round tubercles are more minute ; 
perhaps the sunk dots and pores on the under part of the body are only visible when the epidermis has been 
removed, in which state, alone, I have seen those parts. 
Length of the head, 10 lines; of the body, 1 inch, 11 lines; of the tail, 3| inches; fore feet and toes, 
8 lines; thighs, 6 lines; hind legs, 4| lines ; hind feet 6 lines; width of the head, 7 lines. 
A second specimen, which was rather larger, had the tail only one line longer than the body and head, 
and varied in the throat being slightly spotted with black. 
Inhab. Monterey. Specimen in the Museum of the College of Surgeons. 
Eschscholtz, in his Atlas, has described four Californian species of this family : 
1. Salamandra attenuata. Esch. Atlas, t. 21. 
He has published considerable anatomical details of this species. 
2. Triton ensatus. Esch. Atlas, t. 22. 
3. Triton torosus. 
4. Triton tereticauda. 
EXPLANATIONS OF THE PLATES OF REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS. 
Tab. XXIX. F. 1. 
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Tab. XXX. F. 1. 
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Tab. XXXI. F. 1. 
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Tab- XXXII. F. 1. 
Phrynosoma Blainvillii, p. 96. 
Emys ornata, p. 93. 
Leiocephalus carinatus, p. 97. 
ClIAMiELEOPSIS HeRNANDESII, p. 94. 
Tropidolepis torquatus, p. 95. 
Tropidolepis scalaris, p. 95. 
Gerrhonotus imbricatus, p. 96. 
Gerrhonotus Burnetii, p. 96. 
Salamandra Beecheyii, p. 98 
Coluber (natrix) subcarinata, p. 97. 
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