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seen the newly hatched young, scarcely more than half an inch in 
length, feeding upon aquatic animals and even eating coleopterous in- 
sects with their hard wing cases. 
Amblystoma punctatum (Linn.). Slate color, with a row of 7 or 8 
yellow spots on each side of body and similar rows on the tail. I kept 
a female that ate larve and earthworms and grew to over 7 inches. 
She deposited a large number of eggs imbedded in a mass of rather 
hard jelly, but they did not hatch, not having been fertilized by the 
male. She swam with her tail alone, holding her legs motionless by 
her side. When not disturbed she spent much of her time floating on 
the surface of the water. Her tail was prehensile. 
Amblystoma opacum (Gravenborst). A sluggish animal. I have 
never seen the adult enter the water. 
Hemidactylium scutatum (Schlegel). Brown colored, and rough- 
skinned. I have seen small ones, but never any with gill slits and 
have never seen it inthe water. Like A. punctatum it has a prehensile 
tail. 
Plethodon cinereus (Green). Black-backed. Numerous in swampy 
ground. 
Plethodon erythronotus. Straight red stripe on back. Quick and 
active. I have seen them climb the glass sides of a show case in which 
they were confined. 
Plethodon glutinosus (Green). Wet, stony ground. Apparently 
terrestrial, though it isa good swimmer. The prehensile power of its 
tail is the most highly developed of all of our native Salamanders. 
Spelerpes longicaudus (Green). It makes an entertaining pet, for 
it is beautiful and active, takes food readily and moves with an ab- 
surd series of wriggles and jerks. The only specimens I have seen 
were found under logs on the top of a hill, far from water. I kept 
them in a box of wet moss and they flourished, but some kept by a 
friend in a dry box, supplied with a little pan of water, soon died. 
Spelerpes maculicaudus (Cope). Rare, found beneath overhanging 
rocks. 
Spelerpes bilineatus (Green). They are active, are good climbers 
and can jump. 
Diemyctylus viridescens (Raf.). Common, easily domesticated. Ac- 
tive all the year, even when their ponds are frozen over. They have 
prehensile tails. . 
Desmognathus fusea (Raf.). Some years ago they were common 
under stones in Kelso Creek, near Vincennes, but now, with better 
