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their average size is that of the iris. On the sides, between the fore 
and hind legs, the dark mottling is concentrated into an obscure broad 
dark band. Length about five inches. 
PseuDoTRITON MonTANUS, Baird. Similar to P. ruber, (Daud.) Tail 
as long as the body. Iris dark, without the longitudinal bar. 
wo specimens obtained in the South Mountain, near Carlisle, Penn- 
sylvania. 
Ground color of all the upper parts reddish brown, with sparse circu- 
jar spots of well defined black or dark brown. Beneath deep salmon 
color: spots few on the sides and the outside of the limbs. Iris dark 
chestnut brown almost black, with faint mottlings of bronze on the 
inner border, and without the dark bar of P. ruber. In this latter spe- 
cies the iris is brassy yellow with a dark longitudinal bar. Proportions 
of body most like those of P. salmonea, (Storer.) ‘The insertion of the 
hind legs is just half way between the snout and tip of tail. In P. ru- 
ber it is considerably nearer the tail, which thus becomes shorter than 
the head and body. The crown of the head is more elevated, and the 
-OcCiput more convex in P. montanus than in P. ruber, the scull also is 
ed, indistinct, and confluent with the ground tint. Costal furrows’ in 
monat 7; but 16 in P. ruber. 
Of the two specimens obtained, one was six inches long, the other 
three. The latter was even more characteristically marked than the 
former. Both were described when living. 
PLEsTIODON ANTHRACcINUS, Baird. Size between Lygosoma lateralis 
and Plestiodon-fasciatus, without any indication of a vertebral line. 
Four narrow longitudinal yellow lines, and on each side a broad stripe 
of anthracite black. 
Found quite abundantly about old logs, in the North Mountain near 
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. More common than either Plestiodon fascia- 
tus, or P. quinquelineatus. 
