400 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1895. 



Order URODELA. 



Family PLEURODELIDJE. 



Genus DIEMYCTYLUS Eaflnesque. 



40. Diemyctylus viridescens meridionalis (Cope). Spotted Triton. 

 About forty of these Newts were brought alive to me by a boy 



who had takeu them in a stream flowing into Reelfoot Lake. They 

 were the only specimens observed by me in Tennessee. The series 

 is remarkably uniform in size, averaging about three inches in 

 length. The coloration is likewise remarkably constant; dark olive 

 above with round dots of black evenly distributed, becoming clouded 

 on the tail. Lower parts clear, light yellow, dotted with black. Tail 

 strongly keeled above and below. The entire series lacks any indi- 

 cation of the lateral, red, black- ringed ocelli so uniformly present in 

 viridescens. 



The name miniatus given by Rafmesque to this species in the 

 same issue of the Annals of Nature containing his description of 

 viridescens, must give place to the latter name, which was the first 

 in the order of sequence. 



The occurrence of the meridionalis type of this species in the 

 Mississippi bottoms of Tennessee is of much interest and seems 

 quite parallel to that of Hyla cinerea semifasciata above men- 

 tioned, both cases showing the close faunal relationship of this re- 

 gion with eastern and southeastern Texas. 



Specimens: Samburg, 14. 



Family DESMOGNATHIDJE. 

 Genus DESMOGNATHUS Baird. 



41. Desmognathus nigra (Green). Black Salamander. 

 Found only in the eastern part of the State. 



Specimens: Sawyer's Springs, 8 juv.; Roan Mountain (3,500 to 

 5,000 feet), 2 ad. ' 



42. Desmognathus fusca (Raf. ). Dusky Salamander. 



Specimens: Roan Mountain ($500 feet), 1 ad.; ditto (6,300 feet), 

 1 ad. 



43. Desmognathus ochrophaea Cope. Gray Salamander. 

 I doubtfully refer two specimens to this species. 

 Specimens: Harriman, 2 ad. 



