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to keep them separated. A number of these lizards breed in our athletic 

 field each year, and from the 1st of August to the middle of September 

 young specimens just out of the egg are exceedingly abundant. 



Opheosaurus ventralis Linn. 



GLASS SNAKE. 



This animal is rare. A fine example in the University museum was 

 collected six miles south of the city of Waco. 



Cnemidophorus gularis Baird and Girard. 



WESTERN" LINED LIZARD. 



Abundant, especially in the flats where they burrow under the roots of 

 mesquite bushes. Femoral pores 16 to 19. 



Cnemidophorus sexlineatus Linn. 



SIX-LINED LIZARD. 



I have collected a few typical specimens of this eastern species along the 

 left bank of the Brazos River, between the First Street Cemetery and 

 Gurley's bottom. 



Liolepisma laterale Say. 

 GROUND LIZARD. 



Very common in the bottoms, living among dead leaves and around 

 and under stumps and fallen trees. 



Eumeces quinquelineatus Linn. 



RED HEAD; BLUE-TAILED LIZARD. 



This lizard is rare in the immediate neighborhood of the city of Waco, 

 but in the post-oak country it is as common as Sceloporus spinosus. 



Eumeces obsoletus Baird and Girard. 



WESTERN SKINK. 



Three half-grown examples of this species were collected among rocks, 

 not far from McGregor. 



Glauconia dulcis Baird and Girard. 



WORM SNAKE. 



On July 22, 1907, Mr. W. T. Gooch found a specimen of this species 

 lying dead in a path on the Baylor Campus, only a stone's throw from 

 the Science Hall. It was in a preservable condition and could not have 

 been dead over an hour at the outside. 



Diadophis regalis Baird and Girard. 



WESTERN RING-NECKED SNAKE. 



One specimen from near Dry Pond, in east Waco. In this paper, fol- 

 lowing Arthur Frwin Brown, I drop the subspecific name arnyi, which 

 I formerly applied to this snake. Cope clearly admitted that arnyi was 

 merely a color variation.* 



*" Crocodilian*, lizards and snakes of North America," p. 745 (" Resembles D. regalis, 

 from which it will be distinguished by color"). 



