1868.] 199 [AUen. 



erythronotus or Diemictylus miniatus; while it is not mentioned in 

 Prof. Verrill's list of the Batrachians of Norway, Maine. 



13. Diemictylus miniatus Raf. (Salamandra symmetrica Har- 

 lan, Storer's Rep., p. 246.) Symmetrical Salamander. Compara- 

 tively common. Nearly as abundant as the preceding, and generally 

 found in similar situations. 



This, as well as the preceding, I found exceedingly abundant in the 

 damp forests of Wayne County, New York, where, in some localities, 

 especially during damp weather, several could be seen at once within 

 an area of a few yards, crawling slowly over the leaves. Usually 

 scores of either species might be collected in a few minutes. In D. 

 miniatus the color is quite variable, both as to the general tint and the 

 markings; the former varying from bright reddish-brown to pale 

 orange-yellow above, and from golden to pale sulphur-yellow below; 

 while the black dots vary in number, being much more numerous in 

 some specimens than in others; the number and position of the ocel- 

 lated spots also differed not only in different specimens, but often on 

 the two sides of the same specimen. Twenty-five or thirty specimens 

 of this species now before me, belonging to the Natural History 

 Museum of the Springfield City Library Association, vary in the 

 number of ocellated spots on the sides from one to seven, one speci- 

 men having but one on one side and two on the other. Dr. DeKay's 

 Salamandra coccinea^ seems to have been based on individuals of this 

 species, in which there were few ocellated spots and unusually bright 

 colors. 



14. Diemictylus viridescens Raf {Salamandra dorsalis Har- 

 lan, Storer's Rep., p. 249.) ^ Many-spotted Salamander. Common. 

 Generally seen early in spring in considerable numbers, in muddy 

 streams and ponds. 



15. Amblystoma punctatum. Baird. (Salamandra venenosa 

 Barton, Storer's Rep., p. 247.) Violet-colored Salamander. Not 

 very common. But six, or eight specimens have been collected by the 

 writer in as many years. Found under rotten wood in damp forests. 



» N. Y. Fauna, Vol. UI, p. 81. 



2 Dr. Storer states in his Report (p. 250), that not meeting with any description 

 which agreed with this species, " two years since I read an account of it before the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, under the name of S. millepunctata." I have, 

 however, been unable to find this name, or any reference by Dr. Storer to this spe- 

 cies in any of the publications of the Society, and hence presume the name was 

 never published. 



