172 BULLETIN 34, UNITED STATES NOTIONAL MUSEUM. 



Spelerjics gnllolinvaius Holbr. 



Cata- 

 logue 

 num- 

 ber. 



3723 

 3727 

 3749 

 4733 

 3734 

 5720 

 3733 



Eo.of 

 spec. 



Sex 

 and age. 



Larva. 



Localitv. 



Eutaw, Ala 



Salem, N. C 



Riceborougli, Ga. 

 Abbeville, S.U... 



Mississippi 



Anderson, S. C. ... 

 New Madrid. Mo 



When col- 

 lected. 



From whom received. 



Professor Winebell 



I. T. Linebacli 



Dr. Jones 



Dr. Barratt 



Colonel Wailes 



Mrs. Daniels 



E. Kennicott 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



This species was found abundantly by the writer in the upper valley 

 of the French Broad Eiver, in North Carolina, at an elevation of 2,500 

 feet above the sea. Dr. A. K. Fisher, of the U. S. Agricultural bureau, 

 also found this species ia Virginia, only eight miles south of Washing, 

 ton, D. C, a most remarkable extension of its range. 



The specimen recorded in Dr. Yarrow's check-list as from Lan- 

 caster, Ohio, belongs to the S. longicaudus. 



SPELERPES EUBER DaTidin. 



(Pliitcs 29, 30, figs. 1-5; 31, figs. 1-5; 32, figs. 1-3; 35, figs. 7-10; 40, figs. 1,2; 45, fig. 



6; 48, fig. 16.) 



Cope, Proceed. Ac., Pbila., 1869, p. 107; Straiich, Salam., ]i. 83 ; Bou- 

 leuger. Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., ed. ii, 1882, p. 62. 



Salamandra rubra Daud., Kept., viii, p. 227, PI. 92, fig. 2 ; Holbr., N. A. Herp., v, 



p. 35, Pi. 9 ; De Kay, N. Y. Fauu. Eept., p. 80, PL 17, fig. 43. 

 Salamandra maculata Green, Journ. Ac. Phila., i, p. 350. 

 Salamandra subfusca Green, I. c, p. 351. 

 Salamandra rubriventris Green, I. c, p. 353 (nee. Daud.). 

 Fsendotrilon subfuscus Tscliudi, Batr., p. 95. 



Pseudotrlton ruber Baird, Journ, Ac. Phila. (2), i, p. 286 ; Hallowell, I. c, IV., ]). 347. 

 Spelerpcs rubra Gray, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., ed. i, p. 45. 

 BolUofjlossa rubra Dum. & Bibr., p. 89, PI. 93, fig. 2. 

 Pseudotrlton flavissimus Hallo^v., Proc. Ac. Pbila., 1856, p. 130. 



Larva: 

 Siren opcrculata Pal. de Bean v., Amer. Pbil. Trans., iv, p. 279, PI. — , fig. 3. 

 Proteus neoecesarcanus Green, I. c, j). 358. 



The form of this species varies with its age, the very old ones being 

 nearly as stout as Amhystoma punctatum ; more so than A. opacum. The 

 more immature, however, are rather slender. 



The skin is perfectly smooth and lustrous. There are no indications of 

 glands secreting a milky juice, as in Amblystoma, but the skin is every- 

 where beset with shallow x)its, closely set. The eye is encircled by a 

 series of pores. These extend anterior to those on the side of the head 

 to tlie nostrils, and are more crowded. The lower edge of the lower 

 jaw is encircled by a single series of pores, and there are two other 

 series, nearly straight, which start from the point of the chin and diverge 

 backwards. 



