CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIA OF MEXICO 23 



Large species, the tail in adults as long as, nearly as long as, or a little 

 longer than head and body 3 



3. Sides and belly blackish 4 



Belly cream, immaculate (or rarely with slight pigmentation). 



flaviventris (p. 24) 



4. Vomerine teeth in a single series usually 5 



Vomerine teeth in several short series ("patch") yucatana (p. 25) 



5. Dorsum orange to orange-brown with usually a dark triangular occip- 



ital spot and often a few irregular or rounded, small, dorsal, black 



marks platydactyla 22 (p. 23) 



Dorsum yellowish or cream with numerous dark spots occasionally 

 forming continuous lines, or rows of black spots; belly and sides with 

 small cream flecks moreleti (p. 24) 



BOIJTOGLOSSA RUFESCENS (Cope) 



Oedipus rufescens Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 21, 1869, p. 104. 

 Bolitoglossa rufescens Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 27, 1941, p. 145. 



Type. — Apparently lost. 



Type locality. — Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico. 



Range. — San Luis PotosI to Guatemala, Atlantic drainage. Kno\vn 

 or reported from San Luis Potosi: 3 miles north of Huichitiuaydn; 

 Vet^acruz: C6rdoba, El Potrero, Mata de Cana, Potrero Viejo, Cuaut- 

 lapan, Penuela, Presidio, Tezonapa; Oaxaca: Santa Efigenia; Tabasco: 

 no specific locality; Chiapas: Palenque; Peten: Piedras Negras. 



BOUTOGLOSSA OCCIDENTALIS Taylor 



Bolitoglossa occidentalis Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 27, 1941, pp. 

 145-147, text fig. 1, C, pi. 9, figs. 1-4. 



Type.—U. S. N. M. No. 111085. 



Type locality. — La Esperanza, near Escuintla, Chiapas, Mexico.^ 



Range. — Pacific drainage areas of Chiapas, Guatemala, and probably 



of Oaxaca. I^own from the type locality and Finca Judrez, Chiapas, 



in Mexico. 



BOUTOGLOSSA PLATYDACTYLA (Gray) 



Salamandra variegata Gray, Supplement, in Griffith and Pidgeon's "Animal 



Kingdom . . .," vol. 9, 1831, p. 107 (not of Bory de St. Vincent, 1829, Diet. 



Class Hist. Nat., vol. 15, p. 68; Mexico, types in Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.)- 

 Oedipus variegatus Gray, Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia of the British 



Museum, 1850, p. 48. 

 Spelerpes variegatus Strauch, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. P^tersbourg, ser. 7, vol. 16, 



1870, p. 84. 

 Geotriton variegata Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 16, 1884, p. 39. 

 Salamandra platydactylus Gray, Supplement, in Griffith and Pidgeon's "Animal 



Kingdom . . .," vol. 9, 1831, p. 107. 



i- 2s Some specimens from the Potrero Viejo region of Veracruz have the vomerine teeth in a "patch," where- 

 as others taken at the same time and place, and presumably of the same age, have only a single continuous 

 series. 



