. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 6 1 Fig. 31. Plethodon glutinosiis. ISTo. 3782, Abbeville, S. C; {. This species in alcohol is of a livid bluish-black. The upper parts and sides are marked with well-defined specks of a grayish-silvery color, looking like torn pieces of foil. These vary with the specimen, but are generally more numerous and larger along the sides. The under parts are sometimes finely dotted with whitish, but this is usually the effect of the whitish glands seen through the integument. The under part of the tail is of a pale bluish-gray. The light spot on th
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 6 1 Fig. 31. Plethodon glutinosiis. ISTo. 3782, Abbeville, S. C; {. This species in alcohol is of a livid bluish-black. The upper parts and sides are marked with well-defined specks of a grayish-silvery color, looking like torn pieces of foil. These vary with the specimen, but are generally more numerous and larger along the sides. The under parts are sometimes finely dotted with whitish, but this is usually the effect of the whitish glands seen through the integument. The under part of the tail is of a pale bluish-gray. The light spot on the chin, showing the attachment of the tongue, has already been referred to. The soles of the feet are also whitish. The back is sometimes destitute of spots, or they are very minute and these when present are often duller than those on the sides. There is occasionally a yellowish tinge in the lateral spots. A few spots of the same kind are sometimes found under the chin. Young specimens are marked like the adult, except in being whitish beneath, and in frequently having the white spots more punctiform and scattered. A number of young of eighteen lines in length from caves in Mont- gomery County, Ya., have a series of small bright red spots on each side; some others from the same locality do not exhibit them. The variation is thus remotely similar to that in Desmognathus fusca. I have not been able to discover any permanent difference between the southern siiecimens of this species and the northern. I have thought there was a greater tendency to expansion of the light spots on the side, so as even to form a continuous band, and to a reduction in size or disappearance of those on the back. I have, however, found. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institu
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