60 Storer on the 
these spots vary in number on the two sides; thus, 
of the eight living specimens before me, of nearly 
the same size, but three have five of these spots 
on each side; the others have three and four and 
six and seven on one side, with five on the other; 
and one specimen has nine on one side, eleven on 
the other, with a single line with one similar spot 
beneath this line on the side, and stil another 
beneath, on the edge of the yellow abdomen. 
All the specimens I have seen were taken in 
brooks. In the stomachs of several individuals, 
were found fragments of the genera “ Lymnea,” 
and “ Physa.” I have kept these animals for months, 
they seeming to thrive very well by a daily supply 
of fresh water, and a sufficient quantity of flies 
which they seize by a sudden spring, and swallow 
by several continued efforts. This species casts its 
exuvie in June, and the new cuticle | is in all res- 
pects similar to the former. 
= in the “Journal of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences,” Harlan describes a salamander which he 
calls “dorsalis,” some of the specific characters of 
which, are “a whitish dorsal line extending from 
the occiput over the tail; a row of whitish colored 
oblong spots on each side of the dorsa! line ; beneath, 
freckled with black dots." 
Not meeting with any description which agreed 
with the species I have just described, two years 
since I read an account of it before this soci- 
ety under the name of “S. millepunctata.” 
My friend, Dr. Holbrook, while examining, with 
me, the last season, the reptiles belonging to 
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