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/onj^icaiidns. (On the contrary, it is perhaps less aquatic 

 than Spclerpes loiigicaudus, — A. W. B.) The ones that I kept 

 for some time in a small aquarium showed a disposition to 

 remain out of the water. They would often climb up on the 

 perpendicular glass wall of the aquarium above the water, 

 and rest there for a long time. If, when thus adhering to the 

 glass, this was turned in a horizontal position, they would 

 continue to stick to the under side of it. I was not successful 

 in my endeavors to get them to eat while in confinement. 

 They appear to endure imprisonment well. 



" During the Summer of the present year my son, W. P. Hay, 

 secured two additional specimens of this cave salamander in 

 the region about Bloomington. One of these was taken in 

 May's Cave, about five miles south of Bloomington and a mile 

 west of Clear Creek Station. It was found sticking to the 

 wall of the cave, about four feet above the water and aliout 

 one hundred yards from the cave's mouth. The other was 

 captured in Kern's Cave, one mile southwest of Bedford, in 

 Lawrence County. This locality is twenty miles south of 

 May's Cave, and both are about a hundred miles west of 

 Brookville, the original place of the discovery of the .species. 

 This shows that the animal is pretty well distributed through- 

 out the .southern portion of Indiana, and will probably occur 

 also in the caverns of Kentucky. The specimen taken in 

 Kern's Cave was also found clinging to the wall above the 

 water, and at a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the 

 entrance. Neither of the specimens made any effort to escape 

 capture. Attention was attracted to both by the gleaming of 

 their eyes in the candle-light." 



Gknus DKSMOGNATHUS, B.vikd. 



9. DesDwgyiathus fusca, Raf. Brown Triton. A common 

 species in the more broken parts of Franklin County, about 

 springs and creeks. Doubtless found throughout the White 

 Water Valley. It is also said to be common in Monroe 

 County. The Monroe County form was wrongly identified 

 in a previous paper (Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., January, 

 iS.Sy, p. 265). D.fusca has also been taken by Prof. W. P. 

 Shannon in Decatur County. The form D. fusca auricnlata 

 Holb. has been taken near Cincinnati, and is represented in 



