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for this species, the other one was collected by Baird 

 and is in the National Museum. The locality given 

 as the "upper James River." 



Notopthalmus viridescens (Raf.). 5 adult males. 



E. R. Dunn, 



Haverford College, Pa. 



NOTE ON AMBLYSTOMA OPACUM, 

 GRAV. 



On September 25, 1913, the writer, with Mr. 

 John Toomey, of the Reptile House Staff at Bronx 

 Park, went to Silver Lake, near White Plains, N. Y., 

 to collect Insects and Amphibia. The weather had 

 been warm and dry for some time and all the pools 

 in the woods were completely dried up. In about 

 the center of one of these dried up pools Mr. Too- 

 mey, having lifted one of the many large slabs of 

 bark partially buried among dead leaves, discovered 

 an adult marbled Salamander, Amblystoma opaewm, 

 coiled around a quantity of gelatinous balls. Upon 

 examination by the writer these were found to be 

 eggs containing living embryos. The eggs were 

 lying in a slight depression, the debris under the slab 

 of bark being fairly damp. On searching further, 

 another female with eggs was discovered, under sim- 

 ilar conditions. 



The eggs were about 3/16 of an inch in diam- 

 eter, and not connected with one another in any way. 

 They were covered with small particles of soil and 

 desiccated leaves which adhered to the sticky gela- 

 tinous envelope. The eggs were kept in some of the 

 debris in which they were found. On September 27, 

 one batch was placed in a shallow pan of water, 

 where they hatched on September 28. 



The larvae were % of an inch in length, very 

 slender and delicate, translucent and pale gray in 

 color. The gills were very long and the delicate front 



