Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology 3 



List of Species 

 Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque). — 

 Rhoades referred fourteen newts secured at Samburg to meri- 

 dionalis. These have been recently examined by Dr. E. R. 

 Dunn (Proc. x\cad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 19 17, p. 27) and 

 identified as viridescens. I have, therefore, followed Dunn in 

 referring a specimen (U. S. N. M. 28393) from Maxey to 

 this form. 



Ambys'toma microstomum Cope. — Two specimens from 

 Maxey, collected by George D. Morgan (28389-90), are in 

 the National Museum collection. 



Ambystonia opacum (Gravenhorst). — Twenty-three exam- 

 ples of this species have been examined, only a single one of 

 which was taken near Henry. The latter was found under a. 

 small, loose board in an oak-hickory woods near an open field. 



Locahties and specimens are as follows : Camden, Benton 

 County, and Reelfoot Lake, Obion County, University of 

 Michigan ; Maxey and Big Sandy, L'. S. National Museum. 

 Rhoades mentions a specimen from Raleigh. 



Ambystonia talpoideum (Holbrook). — In the National 

 Museum are two specimens (28391-92) of this salamander 

 from Maxey, collected by George D. Morgan. 



Pletliodon glutinosus (Green). — Common near Henry, where 

 28 specimens were taken under rotten logs or loose bark of 

 fallen trees in the woods. In addition, 33 specimens have 

 been examined from Camden, Reelfoot Lake, and Jackson, 

 Madison County (University of Michigan), and Maxey and 

 Big Sandy (U. S. N. M.). 



Rhoades regards this the "most abundant and uniformly 



