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Bradybates ventricosus. 



Char. — Dark brownish yellow, with dark colored spots, and thickly covered with 

 fine warts. Length . 



Habitat. — Spain . 



Gen. Remarks. — Dumeril and Bibron are inclined to the opinion that this genus 

 may be only the young of Pleurodeles, coming from the same localities and possessing 

 many of its characters. " We have in the Bonaparte Collection, now belonging to 

 the Academy of Nat. Sciences, a single specimen marked Bradybates jpoi?-eti, which is 

 evidently a young Pleurodeles, but the tail is longer than the body." Tschudi says 

 "Zahne ganz Plethodon," but this is probably an error. 



PLETHODON, Tschudi. 



Phatnomatorhina, Bibron,1i&e Bonap. 



Char. — Head of moderate size, depressed, eyes less prominent than in Spelerpes, 

 tongue broad, oval, free at its lateral edges, and posteriorly attached in front ; two 

 patches of vomerine teeth behind the internal nares, converging toward each other, 

 but separated by an interval ; two longitudinal rows of thickly set sphenoidal teeth,* 

 commencing a little behind the palatine, and very closely approximated ; maxillary 

 teeth very small ; no parotids ; body cylindrical, extremities slender ; tail rounded, 

 tapering to a point ; longer than head, neck and body ; four fingers, five toes. Am. 



Plethodon glutinosus. — (Grey spotted Salamander.) 



Char. — Above bluish black, with minute white spots ; these spots much larger and 

 confluent upon the flanks, and sides of neck and cheeks. Length 8 inches 10 lines. 



Habitat.. — Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, North and South Caro- 

 lina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. 



Specimens in Mus. Acad., presented by Dr. Wilson, (Bonap. coll.,) Dr. Griffith, Dr. 

 Leidy and Dr. Hallowell. 



Habits terrestrial, quite active, found under rocks and stones. 



Syn. 1838. P. glutinosus, Tschudi, Classif. der Batrach., p. 92, No. 5. 



1818. /Salamandra glutinosa, Green, Journal Academy Natural Sciences, vol. i. 

 p. 2, pi. 357. 



1838. /Salamandra glutinosa, Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, p. 118. 



1827. Salamandra glutinosa, Harlan, Journal Academy Nat. Sci., vol. v., p. 330. 



* Teeth arranged upon the basi-sphenoidal and basi-occipital bones, to the number of 300 and upwards, resembling 

 the dental system of the highly organized clupeoid fishes of North America ; a single row of transverse teeth along the 

 vomer cover. 



