118 Strecher — A New ^padefoot icith Other Kerpetotogieat Xotffi. 



Hyla versicolor dirysoscclis is certainly wortliy of a subspecitic name, 

 although the one given by its author is hardly fitting. The retieTilation 

 of the femur he describes is a common character of western examples of 

 versicolor. It agrees Avith femontlis in having a smooth skin but in no 

 other important cliaracter. Hyla ffmoralis is a smaller frug, lacks tlie 

 light spot under the eye so characteristic of rfir.f/co/or and di Hers in the 

 extent of the palmation of the fingers. It also has a dark line through 

 the eye and ear not present in versicolor. 



Chrysoscelis differs from versicolor in having the skin of tiie U])])er sur- 

 faces almost perfectly smooth, only a few tubercles being present along 

 the margin of the snout and on the eyelids. Tlie light s))ot under the 

 eye, in living specimens, is invariably yellow. The color ]iattern is nnuh 

 the same as in tlie typical subspecies. 



This spring I found this tree-frog breeding in small rock-hound pools 

 in a gravel pit. The tadpoles were light yellow. Specimens collected 

 April 21st had the hind-lindjs well developed. 



Eumeces pachyurus Cope. 



Plate II, figure 2. 



This skink was described by Cope* from a single example collected by 

 Jacob Boll near Dallas, Texas. According to the author, the specimen 

 had been temporarily mislaid and he was unable to give a figure of it. 

 The same statement is repeated in his monumental posthumous work on 

 the Crocodilians, Lizards and Snakes ))ul)lished by the National .Museum 

 in 1898. Xo other specimen has since been ](laced on rec(jrd. 



On Ajiril (i, 1910, I stirred a small dark i)rown lizard with two light 

 lateral lines on each side, from among some drift material which had 

 accumulated at the base of an Ojiuutia lejitocaulis, in a woodetl pasture 

 about 3 miles east of the city of Waco. It was very agile in its movements 

 but I succeeded in capturing it before it could enter its burrow under the 

 roots of the Oj>unlla. As it was the first Eimiecis of its type that I had 

 ever seen, I redoubled my efforts ami a few minutes later brought another 

 specimen to light from under a mass of dead leaves only al)out a yard 

 away. This one also attempted to enter a burrow at the base of an 

 0/iuntio, hut its movements were much slower than those of the other 

 example, its weak lindis appealing to be of little .-service in carrying for- 

 ward its long body and heavy, thick tail. This specimen was nnich 

 larger than the first one and was ajiparently a well-grown adult. The 

 color was nmch lighter hut the color jiattern was identical. 



The soil of the pasture is sandy ami the lizards were captured on the 

 side of a draw which carries the water from the truck farm above down 

 to a small slough nearly an eighth of a mile below. On both sides of the 

 draw are thick growths (jf .scrubby tree- — (Jiiercus hreviloha, limns alala, 

 Gleditsia Iriacanthos and Jimi/irr saliinoiiles. ()puntias, both h'litocaulis 

 and the common heavy-stemmed variety, grow around the bases of these 

 trees. Specimens of Lelolepisma latenile Say and Ilnhh'it siriatula Linn, 

 were also found under the roots of the.se plants, but although I spent live 

 days in the vicinity, I was unable to find any more examples of the skink. 



•Bull. L'. S. Nat'l Mus.. No. 17, isso, p. lii, .-39. 



