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The tougue is free all round, as is the case with all of the genus, and- 

 ean be thrust far out of the mouth. The voniero-palatine teeth consists 

 of two short, curved series, which })ackwardly approach each other 

 without meeting, and which do not reach the parasphenoidal patches. 

 The latter are separated from each other by a narrow space. 



The body is elongated and slightly depressed. The distance from the 

 snout to the axilla in distance to the groin nearly three times. There 

 are nearly always fourteen costal furrows, occasionally but thirteen, 

 rarely fifteen. There is a well-defined dorsal furrow. The limbs are 

 rather feebly developed, the outstretched hind limbs are contained in the 

 distance from the snout to the groin about 1.5 times The tail may be 

 a little shorter than the head and body^ or a little longer. It is com- 

 pressed. Keeled above, rounded below, and ends in a sharp point. 



The color above is clear yellow, or yellowish-brown, sometimes merely 

 yellowish-gray ; below pale yellow, without spots Along the middle of 

 the back there is a row of small dark spots, and these may even become 

 confluent into a narrow line. Beginning at the eye, there is a dark- 

 brown line which runs backward on the body and tail. The lower border 

 of this line may be continued down on the side, gradually fading out, 

 however, so that the whole side may appear to be occupied by a broad 

 dusky band. Just below the darkest upper edge of the band, in the 

 intercostal spaces, there may be spots of the ground color. 



Size, usually about 3.5 inches, although a length of 4 inches may be 

 attained. 



This species is very widely distributed, being known from Maine to 

 Florida, and west to Wisconsin, and possibly Louisiana. 



Indiana localities are : Brookville ( Hughes and Butler ) ; Monroe 

 County (Ind. Univ. coll.) ; Waveland, Montgomery County (Butler) ; 

 Marion County, abundant at places along Fall Creek, ( W. P. Hay) ; 

 Terre Haute (Blatchley) ; Vigo County (Nor. Sch. coll.). Some speci- 

 mens from Vigo County have the ground-color, above, a gray merely 

 tinged with yellowish. The snouts of these specimens were also unusu- 

 ally blunt. Similar specimens have been taken in Marion County. 

 Mr. C. S. Beachler reports the species from Waldron, Shelby County. 



Like a number of other species, this seems to delight in living in close 

 proximity to the water without spending the whole of its time in that 

 element It is found hiding away under sticks and stones and among 

 dead leaves about shallow streams and rivulets issuing from springs. 

 It is very active and very slippery, so that when it starts away it is ex- 

 tremely difficult to catch it. A number of adults and larvae were taken 

 June 1, by W. P. Hay, near Fall Creek, in Marion County. The adults 

 were concealed among the dead leaves on the borders of a spring, while 

 the larvae were found in a little pool not far away. The adults were ex- 

 tremely active, and ran rapidly by a kind of combination of wriggling 



