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Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus (Holbrook) 
Bridgewater, October 14th, six; Walnut creek, Raleigh, October 
26th, six. 
Desmognathus ochrophaeus carolinensis Dunn 
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Yonahlossee road between Blowing Rock and Linville, October 
roth, several specimens; Grandfather mountain, October 11th—12th, 
(4000 feet) forty-two; at 4500 feet, thirty-five; Oteen, October 
15th, three; Minehole Gap, Buncombe county, October 17th, five; 
Montreat, October 16th, one; Mount Mitchell, October 21st, (5500 
feet) 55 transforming larvae, ten adults; Mount Mitchell, October 
22d (6000 feet) five; Bridgewater, October 23d, three; also one 
specimen from spring near summit of Mount Mitchell, probably 
the type locality of the subspecies and two specimens from Blowing 
Rock taken September 14, 1921 and presented by Dr A. H. Wright 
of Ithaca, New York. 
In color and markings one of the most variable salamanders. It 
is also one of the most abundant forms in the Blue Ridge moun- 
tains and may be found not only in and along the streams but under 
stones and logs on the mountain sides and in the trails where there 
is slight evidence of moisture. 
The larvae of this species have not before been reported. They 
were found on the wet sand beneath a large flat stone by the side 
of a small spring run at an elevation of about 5500 feet. Under the 
same stone were several full grown specimens, dark and without 
definite color markings but clearly this species. No other species 
were found at the spring. 
Ten larvae have an average length of 18.6 mm but vary from 
15 to 23 mm. In spite of the difference in size, the specimens were 
probably of the same age when taken, for gill reduction had ad- 
vanced to the same degree in all. Some individuals in color and 
markings are remarkably like larvae of Desmognathus fus- 
cus of the same size, but others, even in this early stage, give inti- 
mation of the variability of markings found in the adults. Thus 
the dorsal unpigmented light areas may either be separated to form 
two distinct rows or coalesced with the median dorsal line to form 
a single, broad band with irregular edges; in other individuals the 
light areas unite with a very narrow median line to form a series of 
short cross bands connected in a chainlike pattern and margined 
along the sides by black. The light areas are sometimes opposite, 
more often alternating and united in a zigzag band. 
