364 Illinois State Lahoyntonj of Nat h ml llistonj. 



Spelerpes bilineatus, (jreen. 



Salamandra bislineata, Green, Jour. Acad. JMat. Sci. Phila., 1818, 



I., p. 352. 

 Salaniandra hilineaia, De Kay, Nat. Hist. N". Y., I., Zool. III. 



Bept. and Amph., 1842, p. 79, pi. 23, fig. 67.— Holbr, N. A 



II«rp., 1842, IX., p. 55, pi. 16. 

 Spelerpes hilineata, Baird, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d Ser. 



1849, 1., p. 287. 

 Bolitoglossa billiieata, Dum. et Bibr., Erp. Gen., 1854, IX., p. 91 

 Spelerpes bilineatus, Cope, Froc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1869, pp 



105, 107.— Smith, Tailed Amphibians, 1877, p. 83.— Bou'en- 



ger. Cat. Batr. Sal. in Coll. Brit. Miis., 2d ed., 1882. Sal. Cau 



data, p. 66.— Davis and Rice, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 



I., No. 5, 1883. p. 13; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1883. 



Total length about four inches. With fourteen costal 

 folds. Small, l)ody slender. Head small, slightly wider than 

 the neck, snout rounded. Eye prominent. Palatine teeth not 

 extending outside the inner nares and not continuous with the 

 sphenoidal patches. Tail long and slender, suhcylindrical at 

 base, slightly compressed distally. 



Color above brownish yellow, with a distinct narrow black 

 stripe extending from the posterior margin of the eye to near 

 the tip of the tail. Beneath yellow, immaculate. 



Length of body to the vent, 1.42; tail, from the vent to 

 the tip, 8.8;l 



This small species is included on the authority of Messrs. 

 Davis and Rice. Dr. Hoy has collected it at Racine, Wis. A 

 form of the species originally described as Salaniandra cirrigera 

 possesses two barbels on the snout. The habits, as far as known, 

 are like those of S. Uwgicaudas. 



Plethodon, Tschudi. 



Tschudi, Batr., 1883. p. 92. 



HolTiiiann, Hronn's Thier-lleich, VI , Amphibien, p. W^'6. 



Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, p. 99. 



Tongue moderately large, attached by a median strip, free 

 laterally and posteriorly. I*alatine teetli interrupted medially. 

 Parasphenoid patches of teeth in contact at the middle line. 

 Costal grooves well marked. Tail rather long, with no mem- 

 branous ex})ai)sion. Species mostly of small size. 



