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ILLINOIS SPECIES. 



1 (2). Vomerine teeth continuous with the parasphenoid 

 patches. Costal grooves fifteen or sixteen. General 

 color red or brown with numerous dark spots and 



specks S. RUBER. 



2(1). Vomerine teeth not continuous with the parasphenoid 

 groups 3. 



3 (4). Costal grooves thirteen. Tail very long, with black 



vertical bars. General color yellow, the sides thickly 

 marked with black S. longicaudus. 



4 (3). Costal grooves thirteen. Tail of moderate length, with 



no vertical bars. General color yellow, with a black 

 stripe on each side of the back S. bilineatus. 



Spelerpes ruber, Latr. Red Salamander. 



8(ila))iandra rubra, Latr.. Hist. Nat. des Reptiles, 1802. IV.. p. 



305.— Ue Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., I.. Zool. III., Rept. and 



Amph., 1842, p. 80, pi. 17, fig. 43.— Ilolbr. N. A. Harp., 1842, 



v., p. 85, pi. 9. 

 Pseadotriton ruber, Baird, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d Ser., 



1849, 1., p. 286. 

 BoUtoglossa rubra. Dum. et Bibr., Erp. (Jen., 1854, IX., p. 89. 

 Sjjelerpes ruber, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, pp. 105, 



107.— Smith, Tailed Amphibians, 1877, p. 86.— Boulenger, 



Cat. Batr. Sal. in Coll. Brit. Mus., 2d ed., 1882, Sal. Caudal a, 



p. 62. 

 Spelerpes ruber, subsp. ruber, Davis and Rice, Bull. 111. State 



Lab. Nat. Hist., I., No. 5, 1883, p. 13; Bull. Chicago Acad. 



Sci., 1883. 



Length, including tail, about five and a half inches. With 

 fifteen or sixteen costal folds. Body moderately slender. Head 

 not clearly marked off from the body. Gape rather small. 

 Jaws strong. Snout short. Eyes rather small and not very 

 prominent. Tongue circular in outline, attached by a slender 

 pedicel only. Palatine series of teeth extending outside the 

 inner nares and within continuous with the sphenoidal patches. 

 Tail short and strong, cylindrical at its base, compressed and 

 ensiform distally; no membranous expansion. 



