MENOPOMA ALLEGHANIENSIS. 97 



Alleghany river and its tributaries, and doubtless inhabits many of the branches 

 of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. 



General Remarks. This reptile was first described by Latreille from a fine 

 specimen procured by Michaux, the botanist, in Virginia, among the Alleghany 

 Mountains. 



To Dr. Harlan, however, we are indebted for an excellent description of the 

 anatomy of this animal, and he first recognised the impossibility of placing it 

 among the Salamanders, and established for it a new genus, Menopoma. 



N. B. — The beautiful plate accompanying this description, was done for Dr. 

 Harlan from life, but uncoloured, by Mr. Peale. The snout, however, seems to 

 me much more truncated than in the preserved specimens that I have examined; 

 in them it appears full and rounded, as in the next species, {Menopoma fusca.) 



