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found under planks, logs, and rocks, in damp woods in close prox- 

 imity to water." They "would run at the slightest alarm." 



Hurter and Strecker (1909) speak of hrimleyorum eating speci- 

 mens of Spelerpes multijMcatus with which they were confined. 



No larvae have been seen. Strecker (1908) quotes from Combs's 

 notes on the breeding habits: "In the latter part of August or early 

 in September the female triton deposits her eggs, which are from 30 

 to 36 in number, and attached together in strings, in a crevice in the 

 under side of a rotten log, or in a mass of decaying wood near some 

 small stream. The eggs are about an eighth of an inch in diameter. 

 The female is much attached to her eggs and seldom goes far away 

 from them. During a dry spell she will carry them down into her 

 hole with her, and if it rains again before they are hatched will bring 

 them again to the surface." The Ufe history is probably closely 

 similar to that of fusca. The males lose the vomerine teeth at a 

 length of about 95 mm. 



Remarks. — This species and auriculata are the only forms of the 

 genus that possess the lateral row of light spots. They are also the 

 two shmmest forms with the weakest hmbs. These facts and the 

 geographical probabilities indicate that brimleyorum is a distinct, 

 isolated, offshoot of auriculata. 



Specimens examined. — 37, from the following localities: 



Arkansas. — Hot Springs (type-locaUty), 24; Little Rock, 12. 



No locality. — 1. 



DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEA OCHROPHAEA Cope. 



1859 Desmognathus ochrophaea Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 



p. 124. 

 1870 Desmognathus haldemanni^ Strauch, M6m. Acad. Sci., St. P^tersbourg (7), 



vol. 14, p. 204. 

 1901 Desmognathus fusca Allen, Proc. Boston, Soc. Nat. Hist., vol.29, pp. 73-74. 



Type. — According to Stejneger, Cope's type of ocJiropTiaea is cata- 

 logued in the United States National Museum as 4539. This entry 

 bears in Baird's handwriting "type of supposed new species, D. 

 ochrophaea Cope" and also in Cope's handwriting the one word 

 "Destroyed." 



Type-locality. — Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. 



Distribution, — From St. Johns River, New Brunswick and Adiron- 

 dack Mountains, New York, south in the mountains to Garrett 

 County, Maryland. Canadian zone. 



Diagnosis. — Vomerine teeth lost in adult male. Parasphenoid 

 patches separated. Tail cylindrical, without dorsal keel. A dis- 

 tinct color pattern. Belly, uniform, light. No tubercle canthus 

 oculi. Transformed specimens: Total length, 22.5 to 94 mm. Head 

 and body, 15 to 48 mm. 



I Salamandra haldemanni Holbrook is judgln? from the plate a specimen ol SpeUrpe-t bisUneatus In some 

 sta^e of the metamorphosis. The gills are lacking, but in color and proportions It Is an exact duplicate of 

 certain metamorphosing larvae of bisUneatus collected in August. 



