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are eminently aquatic, but have the peculiar habit of rushing out of 
the water and up the sides of stones or the stream bank when dis- 
turbed. Probably half of the specimens collected and most of the 
larger ones, were taken as they left the water. In life they may 
be associated with the smaller Desmognathus phoca and 
D. ochrophaeus carolinensis although the latter species 
are also found in situations that do not prove acceptable to D. 
quadra-maculatus. Some of the larger females had well- 
developed eggs in the ovaries but others had apparently deposited the 
season’s complement. The ovarian eggs from two specimens 
dissected numbered respectively 52 and 49, and were about 34% mm 
in diameter, yellowish white and unpigmented. 
So little has been published concerning the food of this species 
that it may be of interest to tabulate the results of the examination 
of the stomach contents of five specimens. 
1 A half grown salamander (Plethodon). 
2 One phalangid, Sabacon cavicolens, one adult stone- 
fly and one insect larva. 
3 A large hairy caterpillar and part of beetle. 
4 Three flies, one hairy caterpillar, one stonefly nymph, part of a 
beetle, several hemlock leaves. 
5 Three small salamanders, parts of two beetles, two adult wasps 
(Vespa), one jassid, one ant, several hemlock leaves and many 
insect wings, legs and fragments. 
Leurognathus marmorata Moore 
IP); BHA), Th gisoud) 
Yonhalossee road between Blowing Rock and Linville, N. C., 
October roth, three adult specimens; southwest side Grandfather 
mountain, (4000 feet) October 12th, two adults. 
The first specimen of this interesting species was revealed when 
Mrs C. R. Crosby turned over a flat stone in the bottom of the small 
pool at the foot of a waterfall. Two other specimens were found in 
the same pool within a few minutes. The behavior of a specimen 
exposed to light by the removal of the stone under which it is hiding, 
is strikingly different from thatof Desmognathus quadra- 
maculatus or Desmognathus phoca which may be 
living in the same stream. 
The highly protective color pattern of Leurognathus, 
which is of course effective only while the animal is motionless 
against a pool-bottom background of gravel or small stones, is 
doubtless responsible for its sluggishness. The pattern is essentially 
