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and the last, Zeptalis melite, bearing a close resemblance to the 
female of one of its own family, Zeptoneura Lycinunia.— Buffalo 
Daily Courier, Aug. 25, 1876. 
4. A Preliminary Note on Menopoma Alleghaniensis of Har- 
lan; by A. R. Grore, (Proc. Amer. Assoc., Buffalo, 1876.)—I have 
been able to examine nearly one hundred specimens of the Meno- 
poma Alleghanense, the aquatic salamander living in the tributaries 
of the Mississippi, taken in the months of J uly and August in the 
specimens, which have been described as a distinct species under 
the name of fusewm by Holbrook, and which are retained as a dis- 
tinet species by Prof. Cope in his check list, cannot be considered 
as a different species from the spotted specimens from which the 
original description seems to be drawn. We have one species in 
the tributaries of the Ohio and Mississippi, and not two. The lar- 
ae and apparently often the female specimens, are referable to 
olbrook’s n cee 9° 
I have also to record the fact that the animal sheds a trans- 
rae membrane, which I believe is the exterior layer of the skin. 
ile observing this fact in the aquarium of the Buffalo Society 
Prof. 
nd an almost complete skin, all the feet and the toes being 
mittent swaying motion from side to side. While I have not been 
able to verify the conjecture, this movement of the body may fo 
hected with the breeding peri 
in Dactylethra and Cyclorhamphus Prof. Garman has observed 
* Similar shedding of the skin. We may predict that the same 
thing occurs in the other more exclusively aquatic forms Necturus 
tetradactylus (Menobranchus lateralis of authors), Amphiuma, Si- 
2 and also in the forms that take to the land, as Amblystoma, 
Pret don, Desmognathus, and Diemyctylus, as well as in Megalo- 
batrachus of J apan. 
r I have to record also the fact that females opened on August 
Ist, contained well developed eggs attached by a membrane to 
the ovar 2 
I finally wish to record the important fact that the eggs are de- 
ust. 
pws 2 Aug. 30th, 1876.) The yolk is seen floating freely in a 
Stary fluid, enveloped in a membrane similar to that containing 
