﻿366 OADUOLBRANCHIATE UKODELE BATRACHIANS. 



body short, round, head small, truncate, convex superiorly ; tail round at base, 

 compresssed towards the tip, longer than head, neck and body ; costal furrows 

 deep. 



Hemidactylium scutatum. 



Char. — Skin of the back divided as it were into compartments, resembling plates 

 or scuta, (costal folds) ; deep brown above, pale yellow behind, with irregular black 

 spots upon the throat, sides and tail. Length . 



Syn. — Salamandra melanosticta, Gibbes ; Desmodactylus melanostictus, Dum. et 

 Bib., Erpet. Gen., t. ix. p. 119. 



Habitat, — Abbeville, South Carolina. (Prof. L. R. Gibbes.) 



One specimen in Mus. Acad., presented by Dr. Holbrook, from Chicago, where it 

 appears to be common. Habits terrestrial. The specimens found by Dr. Gibbes were 

 under decayed wood, and the form of the tail in the specimens before us would indi- 

 cate a habitat in land rather than water, being more or less rounded in the greater 

 part of its extent. 



