THE 
WARTED NEWT, 
Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, tailed; naked; or unfurnifhed 
with any diftiruft integument. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Blackifh NEWT with the tides fpeckled with 
white; the abdomen orange with irregular 
black fpots. 
The Warty LIZARD. 
Pcnnt. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 22. /. 3. fig. 1. 
The black-and-orange WATER-NEWT. 
The greater WATER-NEWT. 
The Lacerta paluftris is a fpecies fomewhat lefs 
common than the lacerta aquatica, which occurs in 
almoft every ftagnant water: it is alfo of a fuperior 
fize; being fometimes found confiderably larger 
than the fpecimens here reprefented. Its color is 
an extremely deep blackifli brown above, and a 
bright orange beneath, variegated with large irregu¬ 
lar black fpots. The fides of the body are fprinkled 
over 
