240 Stejneger A Salamander New to D. C. 



Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw). 



1766. Lacerta punctata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12 ed., I, p. 370 

 (type loc. " Carolina ") (not of 1758). 



1800. Salamandra palustris Bechstein in Lacepede's Naturg. 

 Amphib., II, p. 544 (substitute name) (not of 

 Schneider 1799). 



1802. Lacerta maculaa Shaw, Gen. Zool., Ill, i, p. 304 (sub 



stitute name). 



1803. Salamandra venenosa Daudin, Hist. Nat. Kept., VIII, 



p. 229 (type loc. "near Philadelphia"). 



1804. Lacerta subviolacea Barton, Amer. Philos. Trans., VI, 



i, p. 109, pi. iv, fig. 6 (type loc. "a few miles from 



the city of Philadelphia) ". 

 1850. Ambystoma carolince Gray, Cat. Batr, Grad. Brit. Mus., 



p. 35 (substitute name). 

 1854. Ambystome argus Dumeril and Bibron, Krpet. Gen., IX, 



p. 103 (substitute name). 

 1854. Salamandra margaritifera MS. Mus. Paris, fide Dumeril 



and Bibron, op. cit. p. 105. 



This salamander has costal grooves as indicated for Amby 

 stoma opacum, by Professor Hay in his * l Key to the species of 

 Caudata" but the two species may be distinguished easily by 

 their color alone, Ambystoma opacitm being black with bluish 

 gray cross-bars above, while A. maculatum is black with one 

 series of large rounded yellow spots on each side of the back. 



These notes are published here with the permission of the 

 Secretary of the Smithonian Institution. 



