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CONTRIBUTIONS TO INDIANA HKRPKTOLOGY. 



No. 3. 



By Amos W. Butler. 



URODELA— THE SALAMANDERS. 



Genus CRYPTOBRANCHUS, Leuck.vrt. 



1. Crypiobranclnis alle^Jieniensis,Vi2i\\(S\\\. Hellbender; 

 Mud Devil. Only two published accounts of the occurrence 

 of this species in the State have appeared, and they both upon 

 the same authority. Both Mr. Hughes and Prof. Hay give it 

 upon the authority of Mr. E. R. Quick (Bull. Brookville Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., No. 2, p. 44, and this Journal, 1887, p. 60). At 

 the time Mr. Quick gave the information upon which these 

 notes were based, he had seen no specimens for some j-ears. 

 In May, 1888, he brought me a specimen of this Amphibian, 

 which is now in my collection. This specimen was caught 

 on a hook by Mr. H. Kohlbran, about one mile south of Brook- 

 ville, on the night of May 5th. On the same day another 

 was caught about a mile further down the river. I am con- 

 fident that in 1.S77 there were at least two of these animals in 

 the collection of Hanover College, and Prof. A. H. Young in- 

 forms me that he thought there was such a specimen, but has 

 failed to find it. He stated, however, that he caught a speci- 

 men of this species at Hanover Landing, on the Ohio River, 

 in August, 1886. 



Genus AMBLYSTOMA, Tschudi. 



2. Afuhlystoma punctatiim, L- Spotted Salamander. A 

 specimen from Richmond, Wayne County, is in Purdue Uni- 

 versity collection (No. 269). 



3. Amblystoma jcffersonianum , Green. Jefferson's Sala- 

 mander. Rather common in the western part of Franklin 

 County. Mr. W. P. Shannon has taken it in Decatur County. 



