PROCEEDINGS 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Fourth Series 



Vol. VI, No. 7, pp. 215-221 May 12, 1916 



VII 



FOUR SPECIES OF SALAMANDERS NEW TO THE 



STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WITH A DESCRIPTION 



OF PLETHODON ELONGATUS, A NEW 



SPECIES, AND NOTES ON OTHER 



SALAMANDERS 



BY 



John Van Denburgh 

 Curator, Department of Herpetology 



In recent years the Academy has received specimens of four 

 species of salamanders which seem never to have been collected 

 previously in California. Three of these have been known from 

 examples secured in Oregon or Washington ; the fourth species 

 appears never to have been described. In recording these facts 

 opportunity is taken to publish certain other notes regarding 

 California salamanders. 



1. Ambystoma macrodactylum Baird. 



Three specimens (Nos. 39656. 39657, 39658) collected by 

 Dr. E, C. Van Dyke in July, 1915, near Fallen Leaf Lake, El 

 Dorado County, California, add a species to the known fauna 

 of the State. They seem to differ in no respect from others 

 collected in Washington. 



May 12, 1916 



