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and in others they are confined principally to the sides of 
the animal. The glutinous fluid secreted by the skin of 
this, and perhaps all other species of Salamander, seems to 
vary in quantity at different seasons of the year. Those ta- 
ken in the spring in New Jersey were very remarkable in 
this particular, while those which I discovered in Washing- 
ton county, Pa. in August, had scarcely any of this gum- 
mous exudation. 
Cabinet of the Maclurian Lyceum — my collection. 
Salamandra Subviolacea — Barton. 
This species in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, where 
it is rarely found, sometimes grows to the length of sev^n 
inches — is of a dark purplish colour, and has other pecu- 
liarities noticed by Dr. Barton. In the vicinity of Albany, 
N. Y. the Subviolacea is found in considerable numbers un- 
der stones and old logs, in moist situations. It here very 
rarely attains the length of more than four inches, and dif- 
fers in some other particulars from its more southern con- 
gener. The following is the description of a very fine 
specimen I observed in that place: 
S. Subviolacea Var. — Length about four inches — tail 
as long as the body, slightly compressed and a little enlarged 
near its base — head oval and larger than the neck — eyes 
protuberant and approximate — colour above, dark greenish 
slate, with a row of large, circular, bright gamboge yellow 
spots on each side of the spine — these spots commonly com- 
mence immediately over the eyes and run to the tip of the 
tail — they vary, however, in different individuals, a littlo 
both in size and position, but always preserve a linear 
direction — there is sometimes a spot or two on each of the 
legs— the under side is of a uniform greenish slate colour. 
