ERRATA. 
P. 6. After description fo] lowing Family PRO- 
TEID^E read: 
Genus Necturus, Raf. 
3. JV. lateralis , (Say) Bd. Mud Puppy. Above 
brownish, with darker sub-circular spots ; generally a 
dark stripe from snout back to eyes. A more or less 
distinct lateral band in young. Below dusky. Large, 
bushy, bright red gills, forming three tufts on each side 
of head. Head depressed ; snout truncated; gular fold 
well developed; tail much compressed, l^-feet. Eastern 
region, except New England and Eastern Middle States, 
and from a few points in Austrori parian. 
4. N. punctatus , (Gibbes) Cope. Above nearly 
uniform dark olive, with numerous small orange or 
yellowish dots irregularly distributed over the whole 
surface, and large, dark, ill-defined spots at distant inter- 
vals. No lateral band. Beneath pale flesh color. 
Smaller and more slender than the preceding species. 
Eastern S. Carolina. 
P. 18. Before Firmisternia and Arcifera, for 
Order read Sub-order. 
P. 22. Before Raniformia, for Order read Sub- 
order. 
