STRIPED-BACK SALAMANDER. 727 



Genus SPELEEPES. Eafinesqne. 



Vomerine teeth in a transverse row, behind the inner nares, interrupted medially ; 

 sphenoidals in two elongated groups ; separated from each other, usually narrower in front 

 and diverging behind ; tongue boletoid; head short, depressed; body cylindrical, slender; 

 digits free, four in front and five behind ; tail long, tapering and distally compressed. 

 Body with distinct spots or bands, a. 



Body spotless, or with minute dots ; extralimital, Arkansas. . S. multiplicatus. 

 a. Costal furrows 15-17. 6. 

 a. Costal farrows 14 or less. c. 

 6. Color in the main red. ...... S. ruber. 



t. Color cinereous and white, with black ; extralimital, Georgia. 



S. MARGINATUS. 



0. Color above yellow. /. 



0. Color above cinereous, lines black S. bilineatus. 



0. Color above brown S. poephyriticus. 



/. With dark spots ; no vertebral line S. longicaudus, 



/. With black vetebral line; extralimital, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 and Georgia, to Alafbama S. guttollneatus. 



Speleepbs bilineatus Green. 



Striped-liack Smiainander. 



Salamandra bilineatus, Grebk,Holbrook, Harlan, Cutier, DeKay. 



Salamandra flavissima, Harlan, Holbrook. 



Salamandra cirrigera, Green, Harlan. 



Spelerpes cirrigera, Baird, Gray, Hallowell. 



BoUtoglossa lilineata, Dumbril and Bibron. 



Spelerpes Mlineatus, Baird, Allen, Cope, Jordan. 



Color above cinereous, with two or three longitudinal black lines ; ver- 

 tebral line narrow, but broader in front, sometimes nearly or quite 

 eifaced ; below yellow or yellowish white ; color very much obscured by 

 alcohol ; head oval ; eyes ovate ; irides yellow ; postorbital and parotid 

 folds distinct, gular only marked by a cicatrix ; costal grooves fourteen, 

 in most specimens indistinct; limbs slender; digits long, excepting the 

 first and last ; tail nearly or quite as long as the body and sometimes 

 longer. Length, 2i inches ; tail, IJ inches ; head to gular fold, f inch ; 

 breadth of head, 3-16 inch. 

 Habitat, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, 



HEmatus^movAla. Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin, 

 open. 



Common. Lives under stones and decaying matter in woods and moist 

 places, especially along the banks of brooks and in shallow water, and is 

 very active. 



Var. cirrigera seems to differ from this mainly in the possession of two 

 barbels between the nostrils and lip in the male ; they are not present 

 in the female. Green says, "when these animals were alive the 



