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Michigan. Four other specimens, two males and two females, were 

 taken together in April, 1902, under a log. The females were fully 

 twice as large as the males." There are at present three live speci- 

 mens in the University of Michigan Museum. One of these was 

 taken in a Avoods about five miles south of Ann Arbor during the 

 summer of 1910, and was presented to the Museum by Miss Jessie 

 Phelps. The other tAvo specimens were taken by the Avriters in the 

 same woods in April, 1911. A single specimen was collected by 

 N. A. Wood at White Fish Point, Chippewa County in August, 

 1912. 



Very little is known of the habits of this salamander. Smith 

 (1882, p. 723) states that "it has been found in April under old logs 

 and rails in open woods, at some distance from the water, and 

 was very quick and lively in its movements." The woods in which 

 the Washtenaw County specimens were taken is low and damp. 

 One was found under loose moss and one was just inside the bark 

 of a rotten stump. The movements are lively and erratic, the 

 animal sometimes jumping for some distance. The food probably 

 consists of insects and worms, the writers have observed it to eat 

 small flies in captivity. The eggs are laid under moss or bark, and 

 the salamander, at least in the adult condition, avoids the water. 

 Individuals sometimes emit a sharp squeal when annoyed. 



Distrihution: From Massachusetts and Canada westward to Illi- 

 nois and south to Georgia. (Jordan, 1899.) 



Michigan : Specimens in the University Museum from Washte- 

 naw and Chippewa Counties. Keported from Eaton County (Clark, 

 1902; Gibbs, Notestein and Clark, 1905) ; Washtenaw County (Ruth- 

 ven, 1911). 



DIEMICTYLUS VIKIDJESCENS Rafinesque. 



GREEN NEWT. 

 (Pis. I, II a.) 



Descriptio)i: Body slender and slightly compressed. Muzzle 

 rounded; upper jaw extending a little beyond the lower; eyes 

 large; exterior nares close together. Limbs slender, anterior about 

 half the size of the posterior. First finger and first and fifth toes 

 rudimentar}'. Tail much compressed and as long, if not longer, 

 than the head and bodv. Skin finelv wrinkled; costal grooves in- 

 distinct. On either side of the head below the eye there may be a 

 row of four pits, but these are frequently lacking. Yomero-palatine 

 teeth in two longitudinal row^s which converge close to the internal 



