A NEW SALAMANDER FROM NORTH CAROLINA. 



By Leon HARD Stejneger, 



Curator, Dicision of Reptiles and Batrachians.- 



A very strikingl}^ colored salamander, plumbeous with brick-red 

 legs, was recently presented to the Museum b}' Mr, C S. Brimley, 

 of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was collected by Mr. F. Sherman, jr., 

 the entomologist, on August 24, 1904, near the extreme western 

 corner of North Carolina, less than 20 miles from the border of 



[Tennessee, between Andrews and Aquone, both of which localities 



'are on streams draining into the Little Tennessee River.** 



The tongue and other external characters, as well as the whole 

 physiognomy of the animal, are so much like those of ii Plefhodon^ 

 and so different from Desinognatlius^ that I have not considered it 



.necessary to mutilate the unique specimen in order to ascertain the 



[character of the vertebrpe. 



PLETHODON SHERMANI, new species. 



Diagnosis. — Parasphenoid patches of teeth separated; tongue large, 

 f posterior half free; fourteen costal folds; vomero-palatine teeth in 

 two short, oblique series, not extending outward beyond the inner 

 . nares, widely separated behind and from the parasphenoid patches; 

 tail very long, much longer than head and bod}", slender, and tapering 

 [to a tine point; color plumbeous, the legs brick-red in strong contrast. 

 Habitat. — Mountains of western North Carolina. 

 Type.— C?it. No. 36214, U.S.N.M.; Nantahala Mountain, between 

 Andrews and Aquone; Mr. F. Sherman, jr., collector; August 24, 

 1904. 



«In a letter dated December 28, 1905, Professor Sherman, upon inquiry, gave the 

 following more detailed information about the type locality : " I am morally certain that 

 I took the specimen by side of rocky, shaded streamlet in the forest on the eastern 

 (Aquone) side of the ridge [between Andrews and Aquone], more than half way to 

 the summit, tho' I can now only dimly recall the exact place and circumstances. 

 There are cool streamlets on that side of the ridge where I stopped to drink. That 

 ridge must be about 4,500 feet at the summit, and is a branch of the Nantahala 

 mountain or group of mountains." 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXX— No. 1457. 



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