BATRACHIANS AND REPTILES OF OHIO. ITI 
Plethodon cinereus cinereus Green. Body slender, plumbeous to ash 
above ; below a pepper-and-salt appearance, turning to uniform light on the 
mid-ventral line. Inner toes reduced. Length 4 inches. In alcohol the 
body becomes brownish. Costal grooves 18. Legssmall and weak, webbing 
well developed. Distinguishable from the following by the absence of the 
dorsal band of red. 
At Sugar Grove and elsewhere the writer has repeatedly 
taken, along with good examples of the following sub-species, 
specimens that are referable to the sub-species cinereus. 
At Worthington, a litter of young was found in which about 
one-half were provided with the dorsal red band, and the 
remainder showed no sign of it. For reasons such as these, 
Jordan (’99) does not recognize the sub-species and the position 
seems a correct one. It may be said, however, that in the great 
majority of specimens the red band is evident to a greater or less 
extent. 
Specimens in the U. S. Nat. Mus., recorded by Cope from Ripley. In 
the O. S. U. Mus., collected by E. V. Wilcox at Sugar Grove, and the author 
at Columbus ; in the Cin. Soc. Nat. His. by Dr. Lindahl at Cincinnati. 
Plethodon cinereus erythronotus Green. Same as above, but with a 
median longitudinal dorsal band of red. 
Cope, ’89, p. 135: ‘‘I have been unable to detect any dif- 
ference in structure, proportions and general character between 
this supposed species and the foregoing.’’ Again (1. c. 136), 
‘as varieties they are very permanent ones, as I have found all 
the young of the same brood or set of eggs, whether in the eggs 
or just escaped from them, uniformly with either dark backs or 
red ones.’’ From the remarks under the sub-species, cereus, it 
will be seen that the present writer does not agree with Cope. 
Wilcox (’91) records ‘‘numerous specimens of erxythronotus’’ at 
same date and place and under same circumstances as the pre- 
ceding. Withal the validity of the sub-species is doubtful. 
Dr. Lindahl of the Cin. Soc. N. H., writes: ‘‘ Common 
throughout Hamilton Co.; the one colored grey and the chest- 
nut-black varieties often occurring in the same litter, together 
with intermediate forms with a more or less faint reddish hue 
along the back.”’ 
The commonest of the salamanders in Ohio at the present 
time. Occurs over the State, being found in numbers almost 
