NORTH AMERICAN TAILED-BATRACHIA, ETC. 293 



Tail much compressed. Color dark brown, with several large yellowish blotches 

 beneath, and transverse bands of the same on sides of body and tail. 



One specimen procured in New Mexico by Dr. Wislizenus while attached to Col. 

 Doniphan's expedition. 



Body thick and clumsy, more so than in Amhy stoma punctata. Feet short; toes 

 broad. Tail slightly ensiform ; longer than the head and body. 



General color (as preserved in spirits) a dull black or dark brown, with two or 

 three yellowish blotches occupying the greater part of the belly. About nine broad 

 transverse bands of yellowish on the sides of the body, confluent to a certain extent 

 with that on the belly. Similar markings on the tail, forming nearly complete 

 ellipses, and about twelve in number. The back is not crossed by the yellowish, but 

 is rather darker than the ground color. The interspaces of the transverse yellowish 

 markings are confluent with the dark brown oa the back. Extremities blotched like 

 the body. Total length eight inches. 



This species comes nearest to Triton ensatus, Esch., it differs from it in color, and 

 in the arrangement of the palatine teeth. 



Ai^iBVSTO.MA EPiscopus, Baird. Head wedge shaped. Scull longer than troad. 

 Tail much compressed, shorter than the body. Body yellowish with dark mottlings 

 and darker spots. 



One specimen sent b}^ Clinton Lloyd, Esq., from Kemper County, Mississippi. 



Proportions of body nearly those of Ambystoma opaca, Grav, The specimen much 

 corrugated, and its colors obscured by alcohol. The general color appears to have 

 been a shade of yellowish over the whole body, obscured on the back by very minute 

 dusky mottlings. This mottling less evident on the feet and tail ; abdomen and tail 

 beneath almost entirely free from it. Head, back, and sides of the tail with 

 numerous spots of a darker mottling than that just described. These are sub-circular 

 distributed rather uniformly on the head and body; they are larger, and more 

 irregular on the sides of the tail ; their average size is that of the iris. On the sides, 

 between the fore and hind legs, the dark mottling is concentrated into an obscure 

 broad dark band. Length about five inches. 



PsEUDOTRiTON MONTANUs, Buird. Similar to P. ruber, (Daud.) Tail as long as the 

 body. Iris dark, without the longitudinal bar. 



Two specimens obtained in the South Mountain, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 



Ground color of all the upper parts reddish brown, with sparse circular spots 

 of well defined black or dark brown. Beneath deep salmon color : spots few on 

 the sides and the outside of the limbs. 



