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markings, which are more obvious on the lighter colored sides. 

 Beneath; the head and body white ; light salmon color beneath 

 the tail. 



Head,, one inch in length ; width of the head, back of the 

 eyes, four lines ; snout, very obtuse ; nostrils, rather small ; a 

 strongly marked cuticular fold upon the neck. Eyes, remote, 

 and very prominent ; pupils, deep black, with a metallic, cop- 

 per-colored iris ; from the edge of the upper lip, just exterior to 

 the nostrils, arises a salmon-colored line about a fourth of a 

 line in width, which runs back to the inner angle of the eye, 

 and passing up over the eye loses itself upon the middle of the 

 back part. 



This species was found upon moist land. It lived a year in 

 confinement, and appeared perfectly healthy, eating vora- 

 ciously of flies. 



S. dorsalis. Harlan. The many spotted Salamander. 



Journal Academy Nat. Sciences, vol. vi. p. 101. 

 Harl. Med. and Phys. Res. p. 99. 

 N. A. Herpet. v. ii. p. 57, et fig. 



From Roxbury and Amherst I have received numerous 

 specimens of this species by the aid of Professor Adams, 

 and my brother-in-law Dr. Brewer. An individual three in- 

 ches and three lines in length, exhibits the following charac- 

 ters. Tail rather longer than the body. Body, above, dark olive, 

 and granulated as in the u symmetrica ;" lighter on the sides. 

 All the upper part of the body, together with the feet, to the 

 extremities of the toes and tail, sprinkled with innumerable 

 black points. Beneath the body, the legs, and tail, of a sulphur 

 color, darker under the tail, and tinged with olive ; similar black 

 points with those above, are spread over the surface beneath, 

 which in some specimens are much larger than in the " symme- 

 trica.' 1 '' Eyes prominent ; pupils and hides similar to those of the 

 " symmetrica.''' 1 Tail very much compressed in its whole length, 

 carinated above and beneath. Vent very prominent. Anterior 

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