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Family PLETHODONTIDAE 
Subfamily SPELERPINAE 
Spelerpes platycephalus Camp 
Mount Lyell Salamander 
OrigiInaL Description.—Spelerpes platycephalus Camp, Univ. 
Calif. Publ. Zool., 17, September 18, 1916, pp. 11-14, 5 figs. 
Type Locaniry—Head of Lyell Cafion, 10,800 feet altitude, Yo- 
semite National Park, Tuolumne County, California. 
RanGceE.—Known only from the type locality, as above. This is 
at the upper edge of the Hudsonian life-zone. The two specimens 
were taken in a patch of heather among the rocks where water issued 
from beneath surrounding snowbanks. (See fig. 2.) 
Subfamily PLETHODONTINAE 
Plethodon eschscholtzii (Gray) 
Oregon Salamander 
ORIGINAL DEscrIPTION.—Ensatina Eschscholtzii Gray, Cat. Am- 
phibia Brit. Mus., pt. 2, 1850, p. 48. 
Type Locaurry.—California: Monterey (fide Boulenger, Cat. Ba- 
trachia Brit. Mus., ed. 2, 1882, p. 55). 
Synonyms.—Plethodon ensatus; Plethodon oregonensis. 
Common Names.—Oregon Triton; Oregon Plethodon. 
RaNnGE.—Coast region. Has been taken south as far as Forest 
Home, 5200 feet altitude, in the San Bernardino Mountains (no. 4890, 
Mus. Vert. Zool.). Only one station interiorly from the coast belt: 
[probably mountains near] Fresno (nos. 17,650-17,652, U. S. Nat. 
Mus.). Oceurs in Transition and Upper Sonoran life-zones. Inhabits 
damp, shady places in forests and heavy brush; often found beneath 
masses of decaying vegetation and in holes in the earth. (See fig. 2.) 
Plethodon croceater Cope 
Yellow-spotted Salamander 
OrigINAL Description.—Plethodon croceater Cope, Proc. Acad. 
Nat. Sei. Phila., 1867 [1868], pp. 210-211. 
Type Locauiry.—Fort Tejon, Kern County, California. (What 
is probably the type is contained in the collection of the Department 
of Zoology, University of California.) 
