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of the Smithsonian mentions the animal as being ever caught 

 west of the Mississippi. I am under obligations to my friend 

 Dr. George W. Bock, who found one specimen near Bourbon, 

 Crawford County, October 15, 1899, and presented it to me. 



3. Spelerpes maculicaudus Cope. — The western cave sala- 



mander. 



In 1880 Professor E. D. Cope described this as a new sala- 

 mander from a spring at Brookville, Indiana. This species 

 has since been found to be the common cave salamander of the 

 Mississippi Valley along with Spelerpes longicaudus. It is 

 similar in build to the cave salamander, Spelerpes longicau- 

 dus and also to the next species, the newly discovered Speler- 

 pes stejnegeri, but differs in color. All the specimens, old 

 or young, are of a Chinese orange color in life and have the 

 back and sides of the body, tail and limbs covered with 

 sharply defined irregular rounded and elongated spots. It is 

 a twilight species. 



So far I have only found it in Jefferson County, in a small 

 ravine, but it has been found also by other collectors at the 

 mouth of Fisher's cave near Springfield, Green County ; near 

 Marble cave. Stone County; Rockhouse cave, Barry County; 

 and Wilson's cave, near Sarcoxie, in Jasper County. 



4. Spelerpes stejnegeri, Eigenmann. 



The latest discovered species. I have not yet seen this 

 species and therefore have to give the description from its 

 discoverer, Professor Eigenmann : — The back is raw sienna 

 with many spots, coalescing in places and irregularly 

 arranged in two series on each side of the median line. The 

 median line and a streak from the eye back to above the hind 

 limbs are free from spots. Sides dark brown with irregular 

 dots of marbling of sienna. The belly is clear. 



This salamander has been found in Rockhouse cave, Barry 

 County; near Marble cave, Stone County; Wilson's cave, 

 Jasper County ; and Fisher's cave. Green County : all in south- 

 western Missouri. 



