140 Brimley — Notes on Salamanders of North Carolina. 



my possession. Two specimens one each from Burnsville, and Cane River 

 iu Yancey Co., agree in general color and in the separation of the para- 

 sphenoid series, but lack the black lips of schencki, and may be looked 

 upon as intermediates between this and ruber. No true ruber have been 

 taken in the same localities as schencki, and I look upon schencki as a 

 geographical race of the former. 



Spelerpes danielsi Blatchley. 



DANIELS TRITON. 



Cane River, Sept. 25, 1902, one taken by Sherman and H. H. Brimley 

 under a log lying in water. Five taken at Blantyre in May, 1908, and 

 two at Sunburst in May, 1912, by myself. 



This rare salamander is red in life with black spots, but somewhat 

 paler in color than ruber. It has a more serpentine motion in life than 

 most salamanders, and seems to be wholly aquatic and of somewhat 

 mud-burrowing habits. The vomero-palatine series curve forward and 

 meet the parasphenoid series at an acute angle, while in ruber they curve 

 backward and meet the latter at an obtuse angle. So far we have not 

 taken this species above :>500 feet, nor below 2500 feet, and only in 

 places where the bed of the stream is somewhat boggy in character. 



Gyrinophilus porphyriticus Green. 



PURPLISH SALAMANDER. 



Rhoads records one from Roan Mt. ( Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1895, 

 p. 401). Our only record is of three large larval salamanders (total 

 length, 115 mm.), taken by Sherman on Black Mt. in May, 1911, which 

 we were not able to place, but which Dr. Stejneger said were probably 

 second year larvae of this species. 



