Strecka — Reptiles and Batrachians of Texas. 71 



five years later when I first made the attempt to form a perma- 

 nent collection. The species collected prior to 1898 were ex- 

 changed for other material, so that, at the present time, my 

 collection lacks four of the speck's enumerated. These are Lith<>- 

 dytes Intra as Cope, Diadophis regalis B. & G., Ambystoma opacum 

 Gravenh. and Osceola dot lata doliata L. of which only one speci- 

 men each has been collected. All of the other species are 

 represented by from one to a dozen or more specimens. This 

 collection is now the property of Baylor University. 



A preliminary list of 59 species of McLennan County reptiles 

 and batrachians was read before the Texas Academy of Science 

 at its annual session in December, 1901, and was published in the 

 Transactions of the Society for that year. One mistake occurs 

 in this list. Pseudemys c<ni<iini<t LeConte should have been P. 

 texana Baur or P. elegans Wied., both of which I have collected 

 since 1901. I have ascertained that P. concinna does not occur 

 in Texas. The Pseudemys mobilevsis recorded from the State 

 by several authors is probably Pseudemys texana, which has a 

 wide range in Texas. 



The present paper records 75 species and subspecies of rep- 

 tilia and batrachia as occurring in McLennan County. Several 

 subspecific names of doubtful validity used in my former paper 

 are here discarded. 



Anolis carolinensis Cuvier. 

 GREEN LIZARD. 



The little pink-throated Anolis is exceedingly rare. In the spring of 

 1899 I collected two specimens about eight miles south of "Waco, between 

 the Brazos River and Tehuacana Creek. On June 12, 1906, Mr. Hurter 

 and I obtained a third example in the woods bordering the north end of 

 Laguna Lake. 



Holbrookia texana Troschel. 



TEXAN SPOTTED LIZARD. 

 This beautiful species is more or less abundant in suitable localities 

 throughout the northern and western sections of the county. Its prin- 

 cipal haunts are rock quarries and the banks of streams. It is especially 

 abundant along Flat-Rock Creek, where it lives around and under large 

 flat stones lying along the banks. In the fall months a large number of 

 whipsnakes (Zamenis flagellum) resort to this place to feed on the lizards. 

 I was once chasing an adult Holbrookia down the side of a steep bank, 

 when a Zamenis darted out from behind a clump of weeds and seized the 

 lizard and Icaptured both reptiles at thesame time. Theeggs are from eight 

 to twelve in number and are deposited in hard ground to a depth of five 



