50 SALAMANDRA QUADRIMACULATA. 
The inferior surface of the whole animal is pepper-and-salt grey, with a strong 
purple tinge; the upper surface of the extremities are dusky; the inferior are 
dusky, tinged with purple. 
Dimensions. Length of head, 5 lines; length of body to vent, 1 inch 6 lines; 
length of tail beyond vent, 1 inch 9 lines: total length, 3 inches 8 lines. 
Hasirs. This is a land animal, but I am ignorant of its habits, never having 
seen but two living specimens. 
GuocrapuicaL Distrisution. ‘The range of the Salamandra quadrimaculata is 
much more extended in the Atlantic states than I had at first believed; it is 
common in Georgia and Carolina, and is an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, from 
which state I have received living specimens; and no doubt it may be found in 
all the intermediate country. 
Generat Remarks. The specific name of this animal has been chosen from 
the sub-quadrate red spots on the side of the mesial line; other Salamanders have 
similar series of spots, but not of the same form; the Triton dorsalis has round 
spots, but that is entirely a water animal; and the Salamandra symmetrica has in 
like manner small round spots on either side of the vertebral line, but then that 
has a rough skin. 
