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a year in confinement, and appeared perfectly 
healthy, eating voraciously of flies. 
S. dorsalis. Harlan. The many spotted Sala- 
mander. 
Journal Academy Nat. Sciences, vol. vi. p. 101. 
Harl. Med. and Phys. Res. p. 99 
N. A. Herpet. vol. ii. p. 57, et ba 
From Roxbury and Andi 1 have received 
numerous specimens of this species by the aid of 
Professor Adams, and. my brother-in-law Dr. 
Brewer. An individual three inches and three lines 
in length, exhibits the following characters. Tail 
ratherlonger than the body. Body, above, dark 
olive, and granulated as in the “symmetrica ;" 
lighter on the sides. All the upper part of the 
body, together with the feet, to the extremities of 
the toes and tail, sprinkled with innumerable black 
points. Beneath the body, the legs, and tail, of a 
sulphur color, darker under the tail, and tinged with 
olive; similar black points with those above, are 
spread over the surface beneath, which in some 
specimens are much larger than in the ‘“ symme- 
trica.” Eyes prominent; pupils and irides similar to 
those of the “ symmetrica.” Tail very much com- 
pressed in its whole length, carinated above and 
beneath. Vent very prominent. Anterior feet with 
four toes; posterior five toed. Ocellated spots of 
a similar color with those on the “ symmetrica" but 
smaller, are arranged on each side of the spin E 
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