Green's neiv species of Salamandra. 7 



and in others they are confined principally to the sides of 

 the animal. The glutinous fluid secreted by the skin of 

 this, and perhaps all other species of Salamander, seems to 

 vary in quantity at different seasons of the year. Those ta- 

 ken in the spring in New Jersey were very remarkable in 

 this particular, while those which I discovered in Washing- 

 ton county, Pa. in August, had scarcely any of this gum- 

 mous exudation. 



Cabinet of the Maclurian Lyceum — my collection. 



Salamandra Subviolacea — Barton. 



This species in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, where 

 it is rarely found, sometimes grows to the length of seven 

 inches — is of a dark purplish colour, and has other pecu- 

 liarities noticed by Dr. Barton. In the vicinity of Albany, 

 N. Y. the Subviolacea is found in considerable numbers un- 

 der stones and old logs, in moist situations. It here very 

 rarely attains the length of more than four inches, and dif- 

 fers in some other particulars from its more southern con- 

 gener. The following is the description of a very fine 

 specimen I observed in that place: 



S. Subviolacea Var. — Length about four inches — tail 

 as long as the body, slightly compressed and a little enlarged 

 near its base — head oval and larger than the neck — eyes 

 protuberant and approximate — colour above, dark greenish 

 slate, with a row of large, circular, bright gamboge yellow 

 spots on each side of the spine — these spots commonly com- 

 mence immediately over the eyes and run to the tip of the 

 tail — they vary, however, in different individuals, a little 

 both in size and position, but always preserve a linear 

 direction — there is sometimes a spot or two on each of the 

 legs — the under side is of a uniform greenish slate colour. 



