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7. Web including none to about half of proximal phalanx of middle digits __ 8 

 Web between middle toes including entire phalanx; toes broad, narrow- 

 ing toward tip 22 



8. Maxillary-premaxillary teeth less than 30 on each side 9 



Maxillary-premaxillary teeth 40 or more on each side 11 



9. Tail short, about 70 percent of head-body length; adpressed limbs sepa- 



rated by two costal folds; body dark or blackish brown with numerous 



email, irregular dark spots cochranae (p. 28) 



Tail longer, about 90 to 100 percent of head-body length; adpressed 

 limbs separated by one costal fold or touch, in adults 10 



10. Teeth less numerous (22-24); body brownish to brownish gray with 



cream flecks (rarely darker flecks) altamontana (p. 28) 



Teeth 19-20; a red-brown, fawn, or orange dorsal stripe. __ robertsi (p. 28) 



11. Teeth small with reddish-brown tips; toes not widened terminally; maxil- 



lary-premaxillary teeth about 40 on each side leprosa (p. 28) 



Teeth not tipped with red-brown; teeth large, about 50 in maxillary-pre- 

 maxillary series; toes widened at tips nigromaculata (p. 29) 



12. Large (70 mm. snout to vent); maxillary-premaxillary teeth 59 on one 



side; vomerine teeth 18-20; tail, rarely body, spotted white; terminal 



pads under digit tips well developed galeanae (p. 29) 



Smaller, not exceeding 60 mm. snout to vent 13 



13. Body dark, limbs red; tip of tail red or lighter colored than body. 



cephalica rubrimembris (p. 30) 

 Limbs not red, tail usually colored like body 14 



14. Body in life lead-colored, flecked and clouded with cream-white, espe- 



cially on venter; central western plateau cephalica manni (p. 30) 



Body uniformly colored, lacking light flecks; eastern plateau. 



cephalica cephalica (p. 29) 



PSEUDOEURYCEA BELUI (Gray) 



Oedipus platydacfylus Baird, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 1, 

 1849, p. 286 (nee Salamandra platydactylus Cuvier). 



Spelerpes belli Gray, Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia of the British Mu- 

 seum, 1850, p. 46. 



Oedipus helm Dunn, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, 1918, p. 471. — Taylor, Univ. 

 Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 (1939), pp. 264-266, pi. 27, figs. 1,2.' 



Bolitoglossa bellii Taylor, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 54, 1941, p. 77, 



Pseudoeurycea bellii Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 30, 1944, p. 209. 



Bolitoglossa mexicana Dum£r)l, Bibron, and Dumeril, Erp6tologie generate 

 vol. 9, 1854, p. 93 (part), pi. 104, fig. 2. 



Type.— Brii. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Eange.—Yii^ elevations, Nayarit southeastward to Quer^taro and 

 western Puebla; also in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and the 

 central mountains of Oaxaca. Known or reported from Jalisco: 

 Bel6n, Cumbre de los Arrastrados, Talpa, Mascota, Guadalajara; 

 Nayarit: Sierra de Nayarit, Tepic; Michoacdn: Patzcuaro, Tangan- 

 zicuaro, Carapa; Oaxaca: Putla, Cerro San Felipe near Oaxaca, Mount 

 Zempoaltepec; Guanajuato: Guanajuato; Queretaro: San Juan del 

 Klo; Hidalgo: Guerrero; Mexico: 10 miles west of Villa Victoria, 



