elimiistations feom ais^d additions to the nokth 

 caeolij^a list of eeptiles and amphibians 



By C. S. Brimley 

 ELIMINATIONS 



1. Amhystoma jeffersonianum. Our only record is from Eoan 

 Mountain, where S. N. Ehoads collected a number in 1894, but Dunn 

 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., Jan., 1917, p. 23) states that Ehoads' 

 specimens were not this species, but Pleth odon metcalfi. 



2. Desmognathiis nigra. According to Dunn (Proc. USNM, Vol. 

 53, p. 401), the species which has been going under this name is 

 D. quadramaculata, while of Ehoads' two specimens from Eoan Moun- 

 tain, one was this latter species and the other Leurognathus marmo- 

 ratus. 



3. Desmognailius ochrophea. According to Dunn (Proc. USNM, 

 Ic, p. 417 et seq.), our mountain salamanders of the ochrophaea 

 group are not the northern form ochrophaea, but a distinct subspecies 

 which he names D. o. carolinensis. 



4. Gyrinophilus porphyriticus. Our only record of adults is from 

 Eoan Mountain (Ehoads), but Dunn (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., 

 Jan., 1917, p. 19), who looked over the collections of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, where Ehoads' specimens were depos- 

 ited, records Gyrinophilus danielsi from Eoan Mountain, but not this 

 form, hence we must discard Ehoads' record, which leaves only the 

 larval record from Black Mountain, which is at least open to doubt as 

 to the correct identification of the specimens. 



5. Chelopns niuhlenhergi. The specimens from Statesville in the 

 National Museum recorded by Yarrow, but now lost, are probably 

 referable to Dunn's new species, Cleinmys niichalis, of which he 

 collected specimens at Brevard and Linville. 



6. Deirochelys reticulatus. Probably not North Carolinian, and 

 therefore dropped till we get positive evidence of its occurrence. 



7. Pseudemys mohilensis. The specimen from White Lake, re- 

 ferred by me to this species, is probably better referable to concinna. 

 I doubt if the two are distinct, anyway. 



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