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This IS one of our commonest species, and is usually found under stones in shallow 

 streeims. If this be indeed the S. rubra of Daudin, as Holbrook maintains, I must suppose 

 the " bande longitudinale assez large, noiratre et comme briilee," on the under side of the 

 body, to have been accidental, as I have never seen it in the many individuals which I have 

 examined. 



THE SCARLET SALAMANDER. 



S. COCCINEA. 

 PLATE X.XI. FIG. 54. B. — (STATE COLLECTION.) 



Characteristics. Scarlet, with two or more ocellate spots on the sides. Length 2-6 inches. 



Description. Body cylindrical, smooth. Tail rounded, tapering, and, measured from the 

 vent, equalling the head and body in length. 



Color. Bright scarlet, passing insensibly into bright orange red beneath. Three inequi- 

 distant rounded vermilion spots, margined with black, on each side of the dorsal ridge. Eyes 

 black, with a metallic golden margin under the superciliarj' ridge. A dark longitudinal abbre- 

 viated stripe passes through the eye. 



Length of the head and body, 1-9. 



Ditto of the tail, _ 1-9. 



This is a species which appears to dwell almost constantly on land. It was first seen by 

 me near Lake Pleasant, Hamilton county, in a forest, just after a shower. Mr. I. Cozzens 

 states that he has observed this species on Anthony's Nose ; and Major Le Conte informs me 

 that he has seen it from four to six inches long, under stones in Chenango county. Its brilliant 

 coloring, however carefully kept, disappears, and fades into a uniform dark olive-brown ; the 

 spots remaining unchanged, unless kept for a long time in alcohol. 



THE BLUE-SPOTTED SALAMANDER. 



Salamandra glutinosa. 



PLATE XVII. FIG. 42.— (STATE COLLECTION.) 



Salamandra glutiTwsa. Green, Joum. Acad. Sciences, Vol.1, p. 357. 



S. variolata. GlLLiiMS, Ac. Sc. Vol. 1, p. 480, pi. 18, fig. 1. 



5. cylijidracea. Harlan, Med. and Phys. Researches, p. 94. 



S. glutinosa. Stoker, Mass. Report, p. 253. Kirtland, Zoology of Ohio, p. 168. 



Characteristics. Small, smooth, polished. Bluish black, with small irregular bluish white 

 spots. Length 4-6 inches. 



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