164 BULLETIN 34, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Salamandra flavissima Harlau, Amer. Journ., 1826, p. 286. 



Salamandra drrigcra Greeu, Journ. Ac. Pbila., iv, p. 253; Holbr., I. c, p. 53, PL 15, 



Spelerpes cirrigous Baird, I. c. ; Straucli, ?. c. ; Gray, Cat. Batr. Gracl. Brit. Mus., ed. 



I, p. 44. 

 Bolitoglossa hiUveata Diini. & Bibr., p. 9L 



In describing this species I have selected specimens from New Jersey 

 as most lilie the type of Dr. Green from the same State. These are 

 before me, bnt are in rather indifferent iDreservatiou. 



The general characters of the group as described under S. longicauda 

 aiDply equally here. The chief differences of form appear to consist in 

 a rather narrower head, a more elongate body, and perhaps proiior- 

 tionally more slender digits. There are usually fourteen costal furrows 

 between the limbs ; a fifteenth falling over the insertion of the fore-legs, 

 and in some specimens possibly in the axilla. The distance from snout 

 to axilla is contained about 2| times in that to the groin. 



There is only a slight obtuseness of the lip on each side of the muzzle 

 to represent the cirrous appendage of the larva, which is sometimes 

 persistent, thus presenting the characters of the supposed species 8. 

 cirrigera. 



This species is of a clear yellow ; the back with a tinge of brown on 

 it, and this bordered on each side by a dark-brown line ; sometimes 

 very continuous, sometimes slightly broken here and there, beginning 

 at the eye ; sometimes at the muzzle and running through the eye. 



The space between the lines is finely sprinkled with brown or black, 

 sometimes only appreciable under a lens, sometimes more distinct. In 

 most specimens the larger spots are aggregated into a narrow median 

 or dorsal series extending to the tail; the spots on the line sometimes 

 X^artially or entirely confluent. The under parts are always entirely 

 immaculate citron yellow. The sides are very minutely dotted with 

 blackish below the lateral stripe; in nearly all the specimens from 

 Orange only distinguishable under the lens, and imparting a slight 

 dusky shade. The amount of dotting here on the side is scarcely 

 greater than that on the back. 



In j)erhaps the greater number of specimens the mottling of the sides 

 is greater tliau as described, making a broad lateral bacd, sometimes 

 fading gradually out of the dorsal surface, and fading out along the 

 belly, sometimes leaving the lower edge of the dorsal stripe well 

 marked ; occasionally the whole sides are almost as dark as the lateral 

 stripe. There is a row of i)ores on the upper part of the sides, one to 

 each interspace between the costal furrows. These show in the dusky 

 sides as a line of whitish spots, as they do in S. guttoUneata. This may 

 be owing in both either to the transparency of the epidermis or to the 

 actual presence of spots of white around these pores. 



This species bears a close resemblance to Desmognathus ochrophcea in 

 some of its conditions of coloration. The latter may be always dis- 

 tinguished independently of the generic characters, by the broad light? 



