Green's new species of Salamandra. 5 



SALAMANDRA InTERMIXTA — CAUDA LONGIUSCULA, CORPORE 

 SUPRA FUSCO, MACULIS UNDULATIS, SUBTUS INTERMIXTO. 



Speckled Salamander. — Length of full grown speci- 

 mens between five and six inches — tail rather longer than 

 the body, tapering, slightly compressed and pointed — snout 

 oval and a little truncated — eyes dark, protuberant and ap- 

 proximate — teeth small and numerous — back brownish or 

 slate coloured, with dark undulating marks or intercepted 

 stripes, seen most distinctly in old individuals when swim- 

 ming in the water— the sides, underpart of the body and 

 legs, are sprinkled with umber, clear white and yellowish 

 white dots, pretty equally intermixed, which, when the 

 animal is in a favourable light, have somewhat the appear- 

 ance of dew on its sides. In some specimens may be seen 

 a row of small white points along the sides; when the ani- 

 mal is old the speckled appearance on the under part of the 

 body in a great measure disappears. In some young spe- 

 cimens there is a reddish colour along the whole of the 

 spine. The posterior legs are proportionably thicker than 



the others — fore feet four toed — hind feet five toed toes 



short. 



Cabinet of the Maclurian Lyceum — my collection. 



Th< >se animals are found in numbers throughout the: 

 United States. I have received fine large individuals from 

 South Carolina — have found them on the borders of Ohio, 

 and nearly as far north as Vermont. In the spring-hduses 

 and shallow streams about Philadelphia they are quite 

 common, and seem here to arrive at a larger size than in 

 most other situations. Though exceedingly plain in its 

 genera] appearance, and though the markings are by no 

 means striking, yet there is perhaps no animal of the Sala- 

 mander tribe which varies more in the arrangement of it,'> 

 colours than the Intermixta. Sometimes the unrlulatinjr 



