CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIA OF MEXICO 25 



Oedipus mexicanus Schmidt, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 20, 1936, 

 pp. 146-147 (part).— Stuart, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 

 56, 1943, pi. 2, fig. 2 (part). 



Bolitoglossa moreleti Smith, Herpetologica, vol. 3, 1945, pp. 14-19. 



Type.—U. S. N. M. No. 116079. 

 Type locality. — Palenque, Chiapas. 



Range- Atlantic slopes of Chiapas and Pet^n, Guatemala. Re- 

 corded in Mexico only from the type locaUty. 



BOUTOGLOSSA YUCATANA (Peters) 



Spelerpes (Oedipus) yucatanus Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 1882, 



pp. 137-138. 

 Spelerpes yucatanicus Boulenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia of the 



British Museum, ed. 2, 1882, p. 72 (Yucatdn, Mexico; type Brit. Mus.). 

 Bolitoglossa yucatana Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 30, 1944, p. 219. 



Type— Mus. Nat. Berlin No. 10231. 



Type locality. — Yucatan, Mexico. 



Range.— Yucsit^n, Mexico; northern Guatemala. 



Genus PSEUDOEURYCEA Taylor 



Pseudoeurycea Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 30, 1944, pp. 209, 212. 



Genotype. — Spelerpes leprosus Cope. 



Range.— Z&c&tecsiS and Nuevo Le6n southward to Guatemala. 

 Species.-'Eighteen foims are recorded, three of which are sub- 

 species of P. cephalica; all but three occur in Mexico. 



KEY TO MEXICAN SPECIES OF PSEUDOEURYCEA 



1. Body black or lead color in life, with paired series of red or orange mark- 



ings; very large forms 



Body w ithout dorsal red or red-orange markings -- 3 



2. A pair of large red marks on occiput; adpressed limbs in males separated 



by three costal folds; teeth less numerous bellii (p. 26) 



No pair of red or orange spots on head; adpressed limbs of males touch or 

 are separated by a single costal fold; teeth more numerous, gigantea (p. 27) 



3. Premaxillary teeth of males large, bifid, the outer section elongate, 



curved, clawlike 



Premaxillary teeth of males lacking an elongate clawlike terminal part.. 7 



4. Paired series of small yellow spots on back and one lateral series, more 



or less distinct 



No series of dorsal or lateral light spots " 



5. Lavender above, yellow cream below; limbs proportionally shorter, teeth 



fewer in all series gadovii (p. 27) 



Black above, gray-black below, limbs proportionally longer; teeth more 

 numerous melanomolga (p. 27) 



6. Usually uniform olive or gray-olive above; limbs longer, touching or over- 



lapping somewhat in adults; hands and feet larger. _ unguidentis (p. 27) 

 OUve to gray or brownish with some dark-brown or reddish-brown flecks, 

 the costal grooves usually with a dark line; limbs shorter, the adpressed 

 limbs separated by two or more costal folds smithi (p. 28) 



