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of irregular black spots distributed mostly along the sides of 

 the belly and tail, this specimen has dull-brown spots (on a bluish 

 ground) more or less uniformly spread all over the venter (plate 5, 

 figures i and 2). 



Distribution 



The range of Hemidactylium as given by Stejneger and Barbour 

 ('17) is as follows: "Massachusetts, southern Canada westward to 

 Michigan, south to Georgia and the Gulf States, also Arkansas 

 and Illinois." West of the Mississippi it has been recorded from 

 Hot Springs, Arkansas and Bourbon, Crawford county, Missouri 

 (Huter and Strecker, '09). It will undoubtedly be found in all 

 New England states if search be made at the proper season of the 

 year in the somewhat restricted habitat in which it occurs during 

 the period of egg deposition and development. 



The species was added to the fauna of New York State by 

 S. F. Baird, who presented living specimens to the State Cabinet 

 of Natura History in 1851. These specimens with several of other 

 species, "were all caught in the course of an hour, on the farm of 

 Joseph C. Tiffany, Esq., near Coxsackie." (Baird '52). This early 

 record was evidently overlooked by Paulmier ('02), in the "Lizards, 

 Tortoises and Batrachians of New York," as the following statement 

 under the account of the species indicates: "Probably to be found 

 in this State." 



In the Cayuga lake basin where the species has probably been 

 more frequently taken than elsewhere in the State, it has been 

 considered uncommon. Some early records given in "The Verte- 

 brates of the Cayuga Lake Basin, N. Y.," by H. D. Reed and 

 Albert H. Wright ('09) are here quoted: " The first specimens were 

 obtained near Ithaca in the valley of Sixmile creek by.H. W. Norris 

 in April, 1889. No other specimens were found in this basin until 

 October 22, 1905, when twenty-one specimens were found on Larch 

 hill, two mi es south of Ithaca on the east side of the inlet valley. 

 They were all found under stones or about the bases of stumps in 

 the open." 



For the following records from the vicinity of Ithaca, N. Y., I 

 am indebted to Miss Julia Moesel of Elmira College who kindly 

 permitted use of that part of her master's thesis (Cornell '18) 

 pertaining to the four-toed salamander: "April 6, 19 14, three females 

 were taken in Enfield gorge. A single specimen was taken in 

 the evergreen woods at Ellis Hollow on May 16, 19 16." "On 

 April 16, 19 14 . . . upon the hillside overlooking the inlet of 



