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AAA. AVith 13 to 14 costal grooves; body slender ; voraero-palatines- 

 not meeting the parasphenoidal patches, 

 a. Tail consideraMy longer than rest of animal. 



b. Yellow, with black spots; tail with black cross-bars. 



longicaiidus, p. 38. 

 bb. Red, with black spots on body and on tail. 



maeiilicaudxis, p. ?>%^ 



bbb. Yellow, with a broad dorsal band and another each side 



of back. guttolineatus. Appendix. 



aa. Tail not much, if any, longer than rest of animal, back with 



a median row of dots, and on each side a dusky line or 



baud. Ground- color yellowish, above and below. 



hidmeatus, p. 40.. 



Spelerpes longieaudus, (Green). 



Long-tailed Triton. 

 Figure 3, PI 1. 



Salamandra longicauda, Green, 1818, 2, 351 ; Holbrook, 1842, 54, v^ 

 61, pi. 19; Spelerpes longicauda, Baird, 1849, 2, i, 287; Boulenger, 1882,. 

 28, 64; S. longieaudus, Cope, 1889, 51, 168, with figures. 



Body elongated and slender, with well developed limbs. Tail consid- 

 erably longer than the rest of the animal. 



Head flat, tapering gently backward, more rapidly forwai'd to the 

 rounded and projecting snout. Width of head in length to the groin 

 6 to 6.5 times. Eyes moderately large and prominent. Gular fold 

 prominent, on the sides of the neck projecting backwards. Tongue 

 boletoid and capable of protrusion. Vomero- palatine teeth in two short, 

 curved series, which approach but do not meet each other backward;, 

 neither do they reach to the parasphenoidal patches. Externally they 

 do not reach forward to the hinder borders of the choanpe. The para- 

 sphenoidals in two distinct bands, approaching in front, but diverging^ 

 posteriorly. 



Body somewhat flattened, with a dorsal groove and thirteen costal fur- 

 rows. Distance from the snout to the axilla in the distance to the groin 

 2.6 times. The tail is low and flattened, about 1.5 times the length of 

 the remainder of the animal, sometimes nearly twice as long, running out 

 to a sharp point. 



Outstretched hind limhs contained in the length to the groin about 1.3 

 times ; toes and fingers short. 



The color is usually a bright lemon yellow, sometimes increasing in 

 depth to an orange. Below, the tint is paler and without spots. Above 

 and on the sides there are numerous jet black spots varying in size from 

 specks to spots as large as the eye. The largest of these may form a row 



