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54. SALAMANDRA CIRRIGERA. 
jaw of similar colour, and the lower lip and throat nearly white. The back and 
tail above are pale cream-colour, with a tinge of reddish-brown, and speckled or 
variegated with numerous small dusky points; a dusky interrupted lateral line 
begins behind the eye on each side, runs along the flanks above the extremities, 
and is finally lost near the tip of the tail; below this line the flanks are mottled 
brown, with an irregular series of small white spots; the abdomen is yellowish- 
white, with a slight purple tinge along the mesial line; the extremities are 
coloured like the back above, and like the abdomen below, though more dusky. 
Divenstons. Length of head, 23 lines; length of body to vent, 1 inch 5 lines; 
length of tail, 1 inch 7 lines: total length, 3 inches 23 lines. 
Hasirs. Not much is known of the habits of this Salamander; it, however, 
lives on land, and probably never seeks the water but in the breeding season; 
and yet the barbels at the snout would seem to indicate an aquatic animal. 
GrocrapnicaL Distrisution. Louisiana and Mississippi are as yet the only 
States in which this Salamander has been observed. 
GeneraL Remarks. The general appearance of this animal is so much lke 
the Salamandra bilineata, that I was for a long time unwilling to receive it as 
a distinct species, not regarding the cirri as an indisputable specific character; 
for it is well known that many Salamanders put out “singular ornaments,” or 
have curious developments at certain periods of the year; yet Dr. Green believes 
these cirri to be permanent in the male. 
The distinctive characters perhaps the most to be depended on, between this 
animal and the Salamandra bilineata, should the barbels be wanting, which some- 
times happens, is the shape of the tail: in the former it is compressed laterally 
throughout its whole extent, and in the latter it is round; besides, one inhabits 
the Atlantic states generally, while the other is confined, as far as is known, to the 
extreme south, 
