THE BATRACHIA OF NORTH AMERICA. 193 



Measurements of Ko. 6S91, in inches. 



Indies 



Length, axia], from siioiit to rictus oris -j 



Leugtli, axial, from .snout to axilla 4(] 



Length, axial, from snout to groin 1. 29 



Length, axial, from snout to cud of vent L51 



Length, axial, from snout to end of tail 3. 01 



Length of fore limb 3 



Length of fore foot 08 



Length of hind limh 3(3 



Length of hind foot 17 



Width of hind-f )ot sole 3 



Width of head at rictus oris 2 



Width of body at middle 22 



Rabitat, etc. This salamaader is chiefly abundaut in tlie chain of 

 the x411eghanies and their ontlyiiig spurs. I have never seen it in the 

 liill country of Pennsylvania or the lower plains of New Jersey and 

 Maryland, nor have I observed it in the Alleghanies of southwestern 

 Virginia. I have taken it abundantly in the Black Moutaius of Noith 

 Carolina. The Philadelphia Academy possesses numerous specimens 

 from the Broad-Top Mountain, in southern Pennsylvania, from Dr. 

 Lciuy. It has others from Warren County, Pa., from Dr. Randall. In 

 northern Peunsylv^ania and the Adirondacks it is very abundant. 



The habits of this animal are terrestrial. It occurs under the bark 

 of every fallen log of hemlock [Abies canadensis) and in the debris of 

 the dark damp forests of the Nortii. I never saw one in the water of 

 streams and river banks, the habitat of the other species of the genus. 



Professor Baird was familiar with this species before I described it. 

 I published his suggestion, expressed in a letter, that it was the 8. 

 haldemani of Holbrook. Holbrook's figure does not re[)resent Ihi.i 

 species in any degree, nor is his description more conclusive as to the 

 reference of this species to it rather than some others. He says it is 

 marked with spots on the upper surfaces, which are "disposed without 

 much regularity," but the largest are on the flanks. There are but few 

 spots above in this animal, and they are in a regular median series. 

 The sides are banded. He also describes and figures the belly as yel- 

 low, which it is not in Desmognathus ochrophwa. The Salamandra hal- 

 demani appears to me to have been proposed on an unusually spotted 

 Spelerpes bilineatus. 



Desmognatlius ocliropheea Cope. 



Catalogue 



No. of 



number. 



spec. 



3917 



10 



4041 



3 





20 



4539 



5 



Locality. 



Allegany County, K. T . . 



Bradford County, Pa 



Meadville, Pa 



Susquehanna County, Pa. 



Whence and liow 

 obtained. 



Dr. Stevens. 

 C. C. Martin. 

 Professor Williams. 

 Professor Cope. 



1951— Bull 34- 



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