THE LIFE HISTORY OF THE CAVE SALAMANDER, SPE- 

 LERPES MACULICAUDUS (COPE). 



By Arthur M. Banta and Waldo L. McAtee. 



0/ the Unlrersity of Indiana. 



During the past two years the senior author has been engaged in a 

 studj^ of the animal ecology of Maylield's cave, near Bloomington, 

 Indiana. An attempt has been made to work out the distribution, life 

 history, etc., of as many of the species inhabiting that cave as possi- 

 ble. The present paper is an excerpt from the larger one and gives 

 the results of the work on the common cave salamander. It is based 

 largely upon collections made by the authors, but free use has been 

 made of material contained in the United States National Museum. 



General Account. 

 refp:rencks to literature. 



The cave salamander, Spelerpes //taculicaudu.s (Cope), was, until 

 comparatively recently, confounded with its near relative and asso- 

 ciate, Sj)elerpts longlcaudux (Green). The following references per- 

 tain to viacullcaudux exclusiveh': 



Gyrinophilus maculicaudus Cope, Am. Nat., XXIV, 1890, p. 966, fig. — (Brook- 

 ville, Indiana).— Butler, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, 1892, p. 172. 

 (Brookville, Indiana; Northeastern Franklin Connty; Westport, Decatnr 

 County. ) 



Spelerpes mactdicaadus^ Hay, Am. Nat., XXV, 1891, p. 1135 (Brookville, Indiana, 

 p. 1133; Bloomington, Indiana; May's Cave, near Bloomington; Kern's Cave, 

 near Bedford, Indiana); Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. Ind. (1891), 1892, p. 447, 

 pi. I, fig. 4. (Brookville, Indiana; Bloomington, Indiana; May's Cave, near 

 Bloomington; Kern's Cave, near Bedford; Decatur County; and small cave, 

 near Wyandotte Cave, Indiana; Barry County, Missouri, p. 448). — Gaixes, 

 Am. Nat, XXIX, 1895, p. 55 (Vincennes, Indiana).— Cope, Ann. Rept. 

 Smiths. Inst. (1898), 1900, p. 1213 ( Transalleghenian district of the Caroli- 

 nian Faunal area).— P^igenmann, Trans. Am. Micr. Soc, XXII, 1901, 

 pp. 189-91, pi. xxvii (Rockhouse Cave, Wilson's Cave, and Marble Cave, 

 Missouri; Brookville, Wyandotte Cave, and Bloomington, Indiana).— EiCxEN- 

 MANN and Kennedy, Biol. Bull., IV, No. 5, 1903, pp. 227-8, fig. 1 (Marble 

 Cave and Rockhouse Cave, Missouri). 



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