138 Alvin L. Braswell and Nora A. Murdock 



(NCSM, 7 + 42 larvae); Cherokee Co.— 8.0 km sw Murphy (NCSM, 14 

 larvae), 2.0 km ese Andrews (KU, 10); Cumberland Co. — near Linden 

 (NCSM, 1); Duplin Co.— A. 2 km w Wallace (NCSM, 2); Henderson Co.— 

 2.4 km w Etowah (NCSM, 1); Macon Co. — 22.5 km wsw Franklin 

 (NCSM, 9 + 7 larvae), 16.9 km sw Franklin (NCSM, 1); Orange Co.— 9.1 

 km nnw Chapel Hill (Duke University, 9 + larvae; NCSM, 2); Person 

 Co.— 3.2 km se Bethel Hill (NCSM, 2), 12.9 km ne Roxboro (NCSM, 2); 

 Polk Co. — near Tryon (National Museum of Natural History = USNM, 

 1); Rockingham Co.— 12.1 km s Reidsville (NCSM, 1); Surry Co.— Pilot 

 Mountain State Park (NCSM, 4); Wake Co.— 14 additional localities 

 (NCSM, 105). Most specimens are females that were collected with their 

 eggs. All localities are shown in Fig. 1. 



The Bladen and Duplin County localities are 144 km south-southeast 

 and 126 km southeast respectively, of the nearest Piedmont locality in 

 Wake County. Excluding an old and questionable record from 

 Charleston, South Carolina (Neill 1963), the localities in Bladen, Duplin, 

 and Cumberland counties are the first from the Atlantic Coastal Plain 

 south of Virginia. 



More field work is needed before any definite conclusions can be made 

 about disjunct or relict populations of H. scutatum. Since Neill (1963), 

 several authors have provided additional records of H. scutatum in the 

 south: Mount (1975, Alabama); Dundee (1968, Mississippi); Fugler and 

 Folkerts (1967, Florida); Carter (1968, Oklahoma); and Watkins (1969, 

 Missouri). These records are reflected in Conant's range map (1975). 

 Although somewhat restricted in its habitat requirements, this secretive 

 salamander appears more widely and uniformly distributed than 

 previously thought. Several sites heretofore considered disjunct now seem 

 to be part of a more or less continuous range. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — We thank Bernard S. Martof, N.C. State 

 University, for his criticisms of the manuscript, and William M. Palmer, 

 N.C. State Museum, for his help with the manuscript and for providing 

 information on major museum holdings. Drs. R.C. Bruce and J.R. Bailey 

 contributed much to our current knowledge of H. scutatum in the state. S. 

 Alford, J.W. Braswell, Jr., J. Brellenthin, J. Clayton, E.E. Flowers, J. 

 Gillespie, D. Lee, D. Lockwood, G. Mortoro, J.C. Nicholls, Jr., J.H. 

 Reynolds, F. Scott, R.C. Shoop, D.L. Stephan, and R. Yates helped in 

 various ways. The Highlands Biological Station, Highlands, was a base of 

 operations for some of the field work. 



