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high along front edge of snout, as far apart as bony interorbital 
space. Internasal space convex, and interorbital space flat or level. 
Skin smooth to touch and without evident pores or pits. Fore limb 
inserted about first 7/,, in length of body, reaches 234 to origin 
of hind limb, and rather small. Digits short, depressed or slightly 
flattened, not webbed or keeled, and ending in little knobs which 
are not disk-like. Third finger longest, about 414 in rest of arm, 
first shortest, and fourth longer than second. Hind limb inserted 
near first % in body and reaching 434 to tip of tail. Third hind 
toe longest, about 4 in rest of leg, first shortest, and fifth a little 
shorter than second, which is shorter than fourth. Vent close 
behind hind limbs on lower surface of body. Color in alcohol 
plain pale brownish, lower surface scarcely paler than back. 
Along each side of back from behind eye a dull brownish streak, 
in some places slightly interrupted. Back more or less finely 
mottled or specked obscurely with brownish, which is scarcely 
darker than its own general tint. Sides of tail above also tinted 
with brown. Upper surfaces of limbs obscurely brownish mot- 
tled, below pale like belly. Iris slaty. Length 3°/,, inches. 
Cotype of Salamandra bislineata Green. New Jersey [probably 
near Princeton?]. Prof. Jacob Green. 
Also 3 other cotypes. Besides these I have examined a num- 
ber of examples from White Pond and Swartzwood Lake 
(Samuel N. Rhoads), and others from Atlantic City in 1894 
(E. D. Cope). Also larvee, probably this species, taken in Morris 
County (F. Canefield). Considerable variation is seen in the col- 
oring of this species, some examples having the back nearly uni- 
form over its pale area, save the median pale dusky streak which 
is obsolete in some, and others with the entire back densely and 
conspicuously punctuate. Again the punctuations will exhibit 
a still more contrasted appearance as they are pale in some 
examples, with blackish or dusky annectant reticulations. The 
length of the tail is also seen to vary some so that the apparently 
nominal species Salamandra haldemani Holbrook has been 
thought by Cope to be identical. This is further suggested by 
the coloration, though it may equally be referred to the Desmog- 
nathus ochrophea Cope, which I believe to be a variation or stage 
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