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Desmognathus fusca Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 803.—Cope, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, p. 115.—Abbott, Nat. Ram- 
bles, 1885, p. 476.—Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, 
p. 194, Pls. 34 figs. 5-6, 36 fig. 1, 45 fig. 7—Sherwood, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N. Y., 1894-95, No. 7, p. 33-—G. M. Allen, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. Nat. ‘Hist., X XIX, 1901, p. 73.—Stone, Am. Nat., 
XL, 1906, p. 162. 
Desmognathus fusca fusca Cope, 1. c., p. 195, fig. 48. 
? Desmognathus ocrophea Sherwood, |. c. 
Family PLEURODELID. 
The Newts. 
No ethmoid bone. Vomero-palatine bones with separate pos- 
terior processes extending over parasphenoid and having teeth 
on their inner margins. Prefrontals and pterygoids present. 
Parietals not embracing broad frontals. No dentigerous plates 
on parasphenoid bone. An osseous postfronto-squamosal arch. 
Ceratohyal free, connected with quadrate by ligament. Carpus 
and tarsus osseous. Vertebrz opisthoccelous. No otoglossal 
cartilage. 
All of the genera are represented in the Old World, but 2 
species of the genus Diemictylus occurring in North America. 
Genus DigmMicryLus Rafinesque. 
The Newts. 
Diemictylus viridescens (Rafinesque). 
PLATES 16 (aquatic form) AND 17 (red land form). 
Newt. Red Eft. Red Lizard. Water Lizard. Spotted Triton. 
Small Red Lizard. Yellow Bellied Lizard. 
Red Evet. Water Newt. 
Head 6%; depth about 10; width of head about 134 in its 
length from end of snout to constriction of neck; length of mouth 
