IIl4 OHIO STATK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
Spelerpes ruber ruber Daudin. Body vermilion, spotted with black 
dots above. Sometimes the spots are confluent. Below the dots are smaller 
and more closely packed together. Head broad and blunt ; dark bar across 
eye. Tailshort. Length 6inches. Costal grooves 15. 
A most beautiful animal. It is a most conspicuous object 
when uncovered amongst stones and leaves, and whatever use the 
color subserves, it certainly is not protective, unless as a warn- 
ing. They will remain motionless when uncovered until touched, 
when they move leisurely away. It occurs in hilly regions and 
is aquatic, being found in swamps and around springs. In the 
hilly regions of the State, common. 
Specimens in the U.S. Nat. Mus., recorded by Cope from Cincinnati 
and Columbus. In Oberlin College, collected by Lynds Jones in Lorain Co.; 
in O. S. U. Mus., from Fairfield Co., and by the author in Licking Co. 
family : DESMOGNATHIDAE. 
Desmognathus ochrophaea Cope. Brownish, yellow dorsally, brown 
laterally. Median dorsal band yellow, with black blotches and dots. Below 
yellowish, unspotted. Costal folds 13. Size small. Tail cylindrical. No 
teeth in rear of lower jaw. Length 3 inches. 
This salamander may be confused with Spelerpes bilineatus or 
with Desmognathus fusca. From the former it may be told by 
the yellow on the belly and the presence of a light bar from eye 
to corner of mouth. From the latter, it is readily told by the 
rounded tail and (in males) by the absence of teeth in the rear 
of the lower jaw. 
It is an eastern species, a resident of the mountains and is 
placed here on the strength of a single specimen taken at Sugar 
Grove, December, ’o1, which agrees with Cope’s description. 
Dr. J. Lindahl, of the Cin. Soc. N. H., kindly examined the 
specimen and agreed with the writer in his identification. Pre- 
viously it has not been recorded west of the mountains of Penn- 
sylvania. Its habitat is given by Paulmier (’02) as ‘‘ under bark ; 
not aquatic.’’ The Sugar Grove specimen was taken far up on 
a hill, far from the water—a most anomalous place for LY). fusca, 
if such it is. 
In O. S. U. Mus., collected by the author at Sugar Grove. 
