38. REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
nection that erythronota has priority over cinerea by right of 
sequence on the same page, and therefore is adopted here. 
This little salamander is entirely terrestrial in its mode of liv- 
ing, and is said never to occur in water, even in tis larval life. 
The eggs are laid in a little cluster in some damp place, usually 
beneath a stone. When first hatched the young have branchiz 
which soon disappear, and when found in this young stage appear 
quite developed. In the high dry mountains, and most always 
away from streams and water, these animals live. They occur 
under bark, logs, leaves and more frequently stones. I have 
sometimes, though rarely, found them in open places, usually in 
woodland, especially along the slopes of hills or mountains. 
They are somewhat variable in color, especially the back, which 
varies from a dark liver-brown to light reddish, and which may 
be shaded with rose-color to yellowish. It does not appear to me 
to be so abundant as the Desmognathus fusca, or dusky sala- 
mander, which also ranges into the same territories. From, this 
latter variable species, with which it may be confounded, I find 
a good character to distinguish the latter in the whitish or light 
streak sloping down posteriorly from the eye. This, Plethodon 
erythronotus never has. ‘The food consists of insects and their 
larve, which are captured by means of its flat projectile tongue. 
I have examined a number of examples collected by Mr. S. N. 
Rhoads in Sussex County during October of 1896, others from 
Swartzwood Lake and Cedar Lake during October of 1895, and 
Alpine in Bergen County. In the latter district it is also known 
from about Ridgewood. Some very small examples have broad 
heads and bright or light brick-red backs. 
Color in life of adult, above livid dusky everywhere, sprinkled 
with obscure grayish mottlings. An indistinct median warm 
brown tinge, more reddish on pelvic region, and fading out into 
greenish-gray on tail. Lower surface of head translucent brown- 
ish, and rest of body grayish. Feet translucent brownish, also 
tail below. Iris dusky. This example from under a log near 
Kinkora, Burlington County, in October, 1906. Found abun- 
dantly under logs and sticks along the banks of Kinkora Creek 
and south-east of Bordentown. Many examples were com- 
pletely intergrading from the red-backed to the liver-colored 
