5U LIZARDS AND SALAMANDERS OF CANADA. 



notably proportions of body and limbs, but possesses peculiar 

 characters sufficient to entitle it to specific rank. It is indigen- 

 ous to the Pacific slope of southern British Columbia. 

 Additional data : Vancouver Island (Macoun). 



A. paroticum Baird. 



T have been unable to obtain a specimen for study, but this 

 species is undoubtedly Canadian in range. Professor Macoun, 

 Head Naturalist to the Ge:ilogic?l Survey, Ottawa, informs me 

 he collected it on Vancouver Island, and the Smithsonian 

 Institution contains a specimen from the coal mines' in the 

 same place. 



A. decurticatum C<>i)t-. 



1 iiave no personal knowledge of this alleged species, but 

 freely accord it a place in this monograph on the authority 

 of Professor Macoun, who has specimens from British Columbia. 

 Professor Cope's type seem 5 to have been Alaskan. It will be 

 no surprise should it prove to be a variety of the last. 



Dicamptodon Straunch. 



Tongue more completely attached by the base. P.'ilatine teeth 

 in two arched series, separated by a wide interval. Skin smooth; 

 parotoids and costal grooves faintly indicated. 



Dicamptodon ensatus Esch. 



This is a. very doubtful form, but is alleged to be British 

 Columbian. I have no specimen nor any personal knowledge 

 of it. but retain it as a doubtful species. It is so exceedingly 

 rare, that it ruay prove an abnormal form of some other species. 



Batrachoseps Bonaparte. 



Tongue free behind and laterally. Costal folds about 19; 

 body long and slender. 



Batrachoseps atteouatus Esch. 



Said to occur in British Columbia, but T cannot quote any 



