Tin; 15ATRAC1IIA OF XORTJI AMERICA. 105 



Mcasitri mcnls. 



In. Lin. 



Li'iijjtli fiom (Mid imi/zlt; to caiitliiis oris 2.0 



liCiifftli from cud imi/zlc to axillii fi. .'> 



Lt'ii^fdi from t'lid iiiii/./lii to fjroiii (• 11 



Lciifjtli from end muz/lo fo I'lid tiiil 'i I?. 7."> 



Ijfiijjth from (^lltow lo end finucr ;>. I 



Lciif^tli from knco to <Mid toe ;i. 7 



No. ton, el vol I .spociiiuMis; locality, San Antonio, Te.\.; collector, J. 

 I). Ciraliani. 



Tiie piano front and cantlms nostralis of this species form a resem- 

 blance to the (J. tenebt'osus, between which anil C. microstomus it is 

 natnrally placed. 



CIIONDROTIS J'AKOTlCfS IJaird.* 



Cope, .Vini^riciiii Niiliirali.st, IHS7, \t. >*». 



Amhljintoma paroticnm Haird, Coih'. I'mc. Ac. I'liihi., IH(;7, p. 200 ; Strancli, Salam., 

 p. (•).-.; noiil.'njj;t'r, Cat. Hatr. Grad. Hrit. Miis., cd. ii, IS-i, p. 1^ IM. ii, lij^. 3. 



This salamander is of very i)ecnliar (iharacter. It is one of the stout- 

 bodied spe(!ies, in this respect about e(]nal to A. piincttitum, but with a 

 broa(b>r head. 



In the type specimen (47(t8) the skin is remarkably free from pits, 

 pores, and milk olands. Tiiese are found on the parotoid region, both 

 above and below the horizontal furrow from eye to side of neck, which 

 is swollen in conseiiuence. There is also a small patcii on top of head 

 borderiii};- the orbit, a pat<-h on the s|)a<'es between the intercostal fur- 

 rows, on the ujyper pint of the sides, extending-, though faintly, nearly 

 to the belly. Along the ridge of the tail, bordered below by an in- 

 dented line, the glands are tliickly crowded. A few scattered glands 

 are seen along tlie back ; elsewhere the skin is perfectly smooth and 

 glandh'.ss, with the miisch^ directly beneath it, although probably when 

 fresh the usual shallow pits of tlu' group stud the skin thickly every- 

 where, as usuid. These are distinctly visible in a second si)ecimen 

 (I7(t!>). In this also the ghuuls an; more numerous on the back and 

 extend fart her <lowu the side of the tail. 



The head is Itroad and depressed, considerably constricted at the 

 neck. The eyes are unusually large and prominent for the genus, sepa- 

 rated ant»Miorly by about twice the length of their orbits, distant from 

 the nostrils less than this lengtii. The outer ami inner nostrils are 

 respi'ctively about equidistant by little more than one length of the orbit. 



The tongue is moderate, m-arly circular, tilling the rami only ante- 

 rioily and hanlly more than half the wi<lth of the head. 



The teeth are in four patches, forming a transver.se series, slightly an- 

 gular anteriorly, where they extend to about opposite the centers of the 

 inner nostrils, 'i'ju' two central piit<!hes are rather the larger, with a 

 slight interval. Tlicy extend jxtsterolaterally nearly to the inner 

 margin of inner nostrils; then ai-e se|)arate() from the outer patches by 

 an interval nearly the widih of the inner nostrils. The lateral patches 

 extend a short (listance bevond the outer margin of the inner nostrils. 



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