tiept'des and Ainpltihunis of Illinois. 377 



nately the date at which they were collected has been omitted 

 from the labels. Both were taken at Normal in 1882. Many 

 other young of the usual size were collected the same season. 



Amblystoma punctatum, Linn. Spotted Salamander. 



Laaerta punctata, Linn. Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 176(5, I., p. 370. 

 Salamandra venenn.sa, Holb'-., N. A. Herp., 1842, V., p. 67, pi. 21. 

 Salamandra, siihoiolacea, De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., I., Zool,. III., 



Kept, and Amph., 1842, p. 74, pi. 16, fig. .S6. 

 Amhlystoniapuiiotata, Baird, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2dSer. 



1849, 1., p. 28.3-Kenn., Trans. 111. State Agr. !Soc., 1853-54, 1., p. 



593.— Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, p. 175.— Smith, 



Tailed Amphibians, 1877, p. 36.— Boulenger, Cat. Batr.Sal. 



in Coll. Brit. Mus., 2d ed., 1882, Sal. Caudata, p. 41.— Davis 



and Bice, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., I., No. 5, 1883, p. 



9; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1883. 



Total length about six inches. With eleven costal grooves. 

 With one indistinct plantar tubercle or with none. Body 

 stout, cylindrical, slightly swollen at the abdomen. Head 

 wide, depressed, large, mucous pores present. Eyes moderately 

 large. Mouth large. Tongue large, nearly circular in outline, 

 its plicae radiating from its posterior portion. Palatine teeth 

 in three series, the median being arched backwards. Tail oval 

 in section at its base; compressed distally. 



Color above bluish black with a longitudinal series of 

 large round yellow or orange spots on each side of the back, 

 extending from the eyes nearly to the tip of the tail. Beneath 

 uniform bluish black, with no marks. Legs with one or two 

 spots of yellow above. 



Length of body from tip of snout to posterior end of anal 

 slit, 3.40; tail beyond the latter point, 3.10. 



Occurs throughout the State but is not common. Cook 

 Co. (Kennicott), Union Co. (in collection Northwestern Uni- 

 versity at Evanston), Mt. Carmel and Belleville (Yarrow). 



This is a large species bearing a general resemblance to A. 

 tigri'uum, but is to be distinguished at once by the disposition 

 of the spots in two series and by the immaculate ventral sur- 

 face. It has not, to my knowledge, been seen in the central 

 part of the State. Mr. Kennicott tells us in his catalogue of 

 the animals of Cook county (Trans. 111. Agr. Soc, 1853-54) that 



