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red spots. ‘Tail with a red mesial line, compressed at the sides, 
tapering, acute. Tongue round, shortly pediceled. Palatine 
teeth very minute, in a line behind the nostrils, united in 
middle. Sphenoid teeth (half a line behind) in two longitudinal 
subparallel groups, rather wider behind.” Holbrook. 
Salamandra quadrimaculata Holbrook, N. A. Herp. v. 49. 
S. quadramaculata Holbrook, N. A. Herp. v. t. 13. 
Triturus fuscus Raf. Annals of Nat. 1820. | 
Sal. intermixta Green, Hall's Portfolio, xx. 259.; Macl. Lyc. i. 
827. 
S. picta Harlan, J. Acad. N. S. v. 138. 1828, 
Desmognathus fuscus Baird, |. c. 285. 
Hab. Georgia, Carolina, Pennsylvania. 
3. DESMOGNATHUS AURICULATUS. 
Head small. Body and tail cylindrical, dusky brown, with a red- 
dish brown spot near the ear; sides with a series of minute 
reddish dots. | 
Salamandra auriculata Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp. v. 47. t. 11. 
Plethodon ? auriculatus Riippell, Verz. Mus. Senk. 24. | 
Desmognathus articulatus Baird, |. c. 286, 1849. 
a—d. In spirits. New Orleans. Presented by Edward Dou- 
bleday, Esq. any 
7. HEMIDACTYLIUM. 
Head small, rounded, truncated. Body short, round.— Tail fusiform, 
compressed. Body and tail plaited on the sides.— Skin smooth.— 
Sphenoid feeth in many series.— Tongue very long, acute in 
front, broad behind ; front half adherent by a central linear band, 
sides and under part free. —eet slender.— Toes 4:4; short, 
webbed at the base. Costal furrows deep, extending to dorsal line 
“Hemidactylium Tschudi, Batr. 59. 94. 1838.; Bonap. Fauna Ital. 
ii. 131. n.10.; Fitz. S. R. 33.; Baird, l.c. 284, 1849 - 
1. HEMIDACTYLIUM SCUTATUM. 
Pale brown, beneath yellowish, black-spotted. 
Hemidactylium scutatum Tschudi, Batr. 94.; Bonap. Fauna’ Ital, 
li. 131. , . 
Salamandra scutata Schlegel, Mus. Leyd. Abbild. t. 40. f. 4. 6. 
Fauna Japonica, ii, 119. 
