Green's new species of Salamandra, 
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SaLAMANDRA InTERMIXTA CAUDA LONGIUSCULA, CORPORE 
SUPRA FUSCO, MACULIS UNDULATIS, SUBTUS INTERMIXTO. 
Speckled SxYlamander. — Length of full grown speci- 
mens between five and six inches — iail rather longer than 
the body, tapering, slightly compressed and pointed — snout 
oval and a little truncated — eyes dark, protuberant and ap- 
proximate — teeth small and numerous — bach brownish or 
slate coloured, with dark undulating marks or intercepted 
stripes, seen most distinctly in old individuals when swim- 
ming in the water — the sides, underpart of the body and 
legs, are sprinkled with umber, clear white and yellowish 
white dots, pretty equally intermixed, which, when the 
animal is in a favourable light, have somewhat the appear- 
ance of dew on its sides. In some specimens may be seen 
a row of small white points along the sides; when the ani- 
mal is old the speckled appearance on the under part of the 
body in a great measure disappears. In some young spe- 
cimens there is a reddish colour along the whole of the 
spine. The posterior legs are proportionably thicker than 
the others — fore feet four toed — hind feet five toed — ^toes 
short. 
Cabinet of the Maclurian Lyceum — my collection. 
These animals are founS in numbers throurfiout the 
United States. I have received fine large individuals from 
South Carolina — have found them on the borders of Ohio, 
and nearly as far north as Vermont. In the spring-houses 
and shallow streams about Philadelphia they are quite 
common, and seem here to arrive at a larger size than in 
most other situations. Though exceedingly plain in its 
general appearance, and though the markings are by no 
means striking, yet there is perhaps no animal of the Sala- 
mander tribe which varies more in the arrangement of itj? 
colours than the Intermixta. Sometimes the undulatiiip: 
