FAMILY SALAMANDRIDA. 8] 
This is one of our commonest species, and is usually found under stones in shallow 
streams. If this be indeed the S. rubra of Daudin, as Holbrook maintains, I must suppose 
the “bande longitudinale assez large, noiratre et comme brilée,” on the under side of the 
body, to have been accidental, as I have never seen it in the many individuals which I have 
examined. 
THE SCARLET SALAMANDER. 
S. coccingEa. 
PLATE XXI. FIG. 54. n,— (STATE COLLECTION.) 
Characteristics. Scarlet, with two or more ocellate spots on the sides. Length 2 - 6 inches. 
Description. Body cylindrical, smooth. Tail rounded, tapering, and, measured from the 
vent, equalling the head and body in length. 
Color. Bright scarlet, passing insensibly into bright orange red beneath. 'Three inequi- 
distant rounded vermilion spots, margined with black, on each side of the dorsal ridge. Eyes 
black, with a metallic golden margin under the superciliary ridge. A dark longitudinal abbre- 
viated stripe passes through the eye. 
Length of the head and body,.......- 1-9. 
Dittovof theta 35.2... -- 25050 See, P29) 
This‘is a species which appears to dwell almost constantly on land. It was first seen by 
me near Lake Pleasant, Hamilton county, in a forest, just after a shower. Mr. I. Cozzens 
states that he has observed this species on Anthony’s Nose ; and Major Le Conte informs me 
that he has scen it from four to six inches long, under stones in Chenango county. Its brilliant 
coloring, however carefully kept, disappears, and fades into a uniform dark olive-brown ; the 
spots remaining unchanged, unless kept for a long time in alcohol. 
THE BLUE-SPOTTED SALAMANDER. 
SALAMANDRA GLUTINOSA, 
PLATE XVII. FIG. 42.— (STATE COLLECTION.) 
Salamandra glutinosa, GREEN, Journ. Acad. Sciences, Vol. 1, p. 357. 
S. variolata. Giuutams, Ac. Sc. Vol. 1, p. 480, pl. 18, fig. 1. 
S. cylindracea, Haruan, Med. and Phys. Researches, p. 94. 
S. glutinosa, STORER, Mass. Report, p. 253. KirtTLanp, Zoology of Ohio, p. 168. 
Characteristics. Small, smooth, polished. Bluish black, with small irregular bluish white 
spots. Length 4 — 6 inches. 
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