240 Stejneger — A SaJamander N'ev^ to D. C. 



Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw). 



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

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



1800. Salamandra jyct^ustris Bechstein in Lacepede's Xaturg. 

 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. iMcerta suhviolacea Barton, Amer. Philos. Trans., VI, 



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

 the city of Philadelphia)". 



1850, Amhystoyna carolhim Gray, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 



p. 35 (substitute name). 

 1854. Amhtjstome argiis Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., IX, 



p. 103 (substitute name). 

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



and Bibron, op. cit. p. 105. 



This salamander has costal grooves as indicated for Atnhg- 

 stoma opacum, by Professor Ilay in his "Key to the species of 

 Caudata,''^ but the two species may be distinguished easily by 

 their color alone, Ambystoma opacum 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. 



