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County); Maryland (Jennings and Garrett County), The further 

 study of the allied species of Desmognathus fusca has convinced us 

 that this species is valid, contrary to the views set forth by AUen^ 

 and later by Fowler.^ 



Typhlotriton spelaeus Stejneger. 



Three from Marble Cave in Missouri (E. D. Cope in 1893). 



Autodax lugubris (Hallowell). 



Salamandra lugubris Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1848, p. 126, 

 Monterey, California. (No. 1,257, A. N. S. P., type. Dr. Townsend.) 



Also twelve other examples from California (San Francisco, 



Santa Barbara and San Jose), eight of which without localit^^ 



Autodax iecanus (Cope). 



Plcthodon iecanus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 24. Near 

 the United States fish-hatching establishment on the McCloud River, 

 in Shasta County, California. (No. 14,061, A. N. S. P., paratype.) 



Plethodon metcalfi Brimley. 



Thirteen specimens collected by Mr. Rhoads on Roan IMountain 



at 4,000 to 5,000 feet elevation in Tennessee. They were wrongly 



identified as Amhystotna jeffersonianum.^ We refer them to the 



present species as Mr. Brimley states in his description^" that the 



dentition is like that of Plethodon glutinosus. In our specimens the 



vomerines extend beyond the nares, as they do in P. glutinosus, 



while in Brimley 's figure they are shown just reaching the nares. 



The dentition of our examples is intermediate between that of 



P. glutinosus and the species from Pennsylvania we describe as new. 



The vomerine series are larger in the Roan Mountain specimens than 



in the Pennsylvania form, but shorter than in P. glutinosus. Costal 



grooves 14 or 15, 



Plethodon wehrlei sp. nov. Plate IV. 



Dentition about as in P. glutinosus. No white spots on back or 

 color markings of any kind, and belly lighter than in P. glutinosus. 

 Toes webbed at base. Body more slender than that of P. glutinosus, 

 and with 17 costal grooves. 



Vomerine series of teeth scarcely arched, extending anteriorly 

 beyond the nares, internally far apart and scarcely would cross line 

 drawn forward from outside edge of parasphenoid series. They 

 contain but 8 teeth. The series are shorter than in P. glutinosus, not 



' Proc. Boston Sac. N. Hist., XXIX, 1901, p. 73. 



8 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1906, pp. 356-357, PL 13. 



9 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1895, p. 402. 



10 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wn.sh., XXV, 1912, p. 138, PL 6. Sunburst, Haywood 



County, North Carolina. 



