54 Strecker — Annotated List of the Batrachia of Texas. 



E. D. Cope: Check-list of North American Reptiles and Batra- 

 chians " (2); 'The Zoological position of Texas" (3); 

 " The Batrachia of North America " (4). 



M. C. Dickerson: " The Frog Book " (5). 



H. C. Yarrow: 'Check-list of North American Reptiles and 

 Batrachians" (6). 



Various authors: Scattered papers in magazines and the trans- 

 actions of scientific societies. 



Where no name follows a locality, the record is my own. 



Batrachia Caudata. 

 1. Siren lacertina L. 



GREAT SIREN: MUD EEL. 



The siren has an extensive range in eastern and southern Texas. It 

 undoubtedly occurs in all the counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico 

 and is found as far west in the Lower Rio Grande Valley as the Devil's 

 River. How far into the interior its range extends, I can not say; but I 

 am positive, from descriptions of an animal given me by fishermen, that 

 it occurs as far west as Tyler, Smith County. 



Upson, Maverick County (Albert Turpe 4 ). 



San Diego, Duval County (William Taylor 4 ). 



Victoria and Calhoun counties (Mitchell). 



Refugio County. 



2. Typhlomolge rathbuni Stejn. 



TEXAS BLIND SALAMANDER. 



Type and only locality, subterranean waters at San Marcos, Hays 

 County. In a living specimen of this curious animal, the gills and bran- 

 chiae were light red in color. 



3. Ambystoma opacum Gravenhorst. 



MARBLED SALAMANDER. 



Northern and north-central Texas. This species is apparently rare. 

 Cope mentions specimens from one locality, and my records include two 

 others. 



Wichita County, near the Red River (Jacob Boll 3 ). 



Paris, Lamar County (Hurter). 



Hewitt, McLennan County. 



4. Ambystoma punctatum Linn. 



SPOTTED SALAMANDER. 



The only locality I can find for this species is rather indefinite. It is 

 based on a specimen in the U. S. National Museum collected by Col. J. D. 

 Graham " between Indianola and El Paso " ! * 



