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BULLETIN 34, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



cies is iiecessiiry. Tlie type of A.hkohr now in the niii.seiini of the 

 AcadoniY of tlic Xatuiil Scioneos of riiiliulelpliia fiiruisiios tlie mens- 



urenients found in the first cohinin. 



Mcasiiri'iiRiils. 



A. liicolor. ■^- ';3'"'- 



Lenpfli from snniit to cular fol 1.. 



Liii:;lli limn sunlit to axilla 



Ll'IlL'tll In nil Hllllllt t" LTDill. 



Liiiiilli I'liMii .-iiiMil KmimI (if vent . 



Lc'iiiilli iiiiiii axillii tDt'idiii 



Lrii"tli iiriiiwcr Ic^ 1111(1 1'diit 



AVidtli (ifliciul 



In 



II 

 1 



lit 



F(irc-arm and foot into (tiKtiincc fioiii snout to uToili 



I.(U\ IT li'u' anil fiKil into distaiico I'lmn snout to yi (liii . 

 \Vli(ilcai"tcii(ir liiiili into (lislanci' from Hiioiit to (.'roiu 

 Wliolo anterior liiiili into (Il8tan(e fioin snout to vent. 



/,i/i 

 It. 

 J. fl 

 7.'J 

 •i. .) 

 4.5 

 H. H 



8.:; 



Tiiiien. 

 4.6 



;i. .••4 

 H 



4J 



III. 







1 



/.in. 



l.K 



;i 

 (I 



1. 15 

 II 



7.5 



Tiiiun. 

 :).fl 



-11 



Tlic above table of t'oniparative measuronients sliows that -1. hicnior 

 h.is. in comparison witli .4. vopeannm, a h)n{j('r and still broader head; 

 ii! spite of tliis. a distance from (lie axilla to the {iroiii ^Teater than that 

 Irom the .snon* to the axilla, a nuich shorter pelvic rejjion, and shorter 

 fore and hind limbs. 



Found at Ir\ inyton, near Indianapolis, April 7, 1885, by Mr. George 

 II. Clarke. 



The siiecimon on which the description is based was found dead an<l 

 somewjiiit mutilated. The injury that it has snllcreil does not, how- 

 ever, ill any way ob.sciire the eiiaiacters of the speci»'s, ainonntinj;-. as 

 it does, only to a loss of the entire left fore liiiil) and sli^jht I'racliires 

 of a few of the Itones of the anterior part of the head. 



I have not seen this species, and know it only fro-ii the description 

 ami lijiiires of Professor May. ' have copied the ;;reater i>art of the 

 former in the jireccdinj,' para;;iaplis. It is evidently a distinct s|»eeies, 

 c'haracterized anion}; other tliin;;s by the shortness of its boily. In 

 coloration it is abont identical with the Amhlystoma jr(}'er.soiii((nHm 

 fiifivHm. 



AMHLYSTOMA HirOLOK HallowPll. 



Proc. Ac. I'liilii., l-,'.7, i>. Ui:.; Cii]w, cod. hn:, IrtiT, p. i7f; Straiirli, Salam., ji. ( :t; 

 lidiilnifrcr, Cat. Itatr. (irad. lirit. Miis., td. ii, l«vj. p. f.'. 



In the type specimen of this sjtecies the nsnal snperorlvitivl and lat- 

 eral frontal serirs of larjic jiores are not di.scernible. In a second spe(!- 

 imeii they are well marked, in the former the skin is »|iiife smooth, 

 with eleven lateral ;;rooves, and the folds of the throat and sid«' of (he 

 head not stron<;Iy maiketl. The head is broad and obtn.se, enterinft- 

 the len^rth of the <;Toin ;i.T."» times. The front convex in protile, con- 

 taiiiinji' the len<,'th of the li.ssure of the eye in its width betwj'cn anterior 

 cantlms of .same 2.7") times. The sjirno measure is a tritle h'ss tiniii the 



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