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sexually mature at a total length of 107 mm. with head and body 

 57 mm. 



Remarks. — This seems the most primitive form in the genus 

 Its larvae are the largest. The male never loses its vomerine teeth. 

 There is no difference between male and female in size or hooking 

 of the jaws. 



In these characters it leans away from the other species of Des- 

 mognathus and toward the majority of salamanders. Two other 

 points of interest are that its size is the largest of the genus and that 

 it is strikingly similar externally to Leurognathus marmoratay the 

 only species of the only closely allied genus. 



There are several specimens of this form with doubtful locality 

 records. These are: No. 183 Mus. Comp. ZooL, presented by Doctor 

 Holbrook, locaHty Charleston, South Carolina; No. 14001 Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., presented by Doctor Holbrook, locality Pennsylvania; No. 3883 

 U.S.N.M. Meadville, Pennsylvania; No. 3823 U.S.N.M. Cook County, 

 Illinois; No. 8802 U.S.N.M. Augusta, Georgia. Aside from these the 

 specimens are all within the distribution given. No modern speci- 

 mens of this unmistakable form are known from outside this range. 



Green's Salamandra nigra (1818) is not this form. Holbrook's two 

 specimens are the oldest ones known and hence it is doubtful if Green 

 ever saw a specimen of what has been called Desmognathus nigra 

 (Green) . 



Specimens examined: 213, from the following localities: 



Illinois. — Cook County (?) 1. 



Pennsylvania. — 1 (?); Meadville (?), 1. 



Virginia. — Wytheville, 1 ; Giles County, 9. 



North Carolina. — Cherokee, 1; Bald and Sampson Mountains, 1; 

 Haywood County, 3; Pink Beds, 3; Brevard, 61; Blantyre, 5; Mount 

 Mitchell, 3 ; Spruce Pine-Micaville, 1 ; Henderson County, 3 ; Pineola- 

 Mortimer, 7 ; Linville, 43 ; Blowing Rock, 49 ; Grandfather Mountain, 

 3; Roan Mountain, 4. 



Tennessee. — 1; Roan Mountain, 1. 



South Carolina. — Abbeville, 2; Charleston (?), 1. 



Georgia. — 1; Augusta (?), 1. 



No locality. — Three. 



DESMOGNATHUS MONTICOLA Dunn. 



1916. Desmognathus monticola Dunn, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, p. 73. 



Type.— No. 38313 U.S.N.M., adult male. 



Type-locality. — Elk Lodge Lake, near Brevard, North Carolina; 

 altitude about 2,500 feet. Type collected by Ronald and Emehne 

 Tipping, July 13, 1908. 



Distribution. — From Clarke County, Virginia, and Greenbrier 

 County, West Virginia, south in the mountains to Toccoa, Georgia. 



