THE REPTILES OF OHIO ?07 



This subspecies is characterized by its large dorsal scales; they rarely exceed 

 57 in number (counting from the last of the head scales to a point opposite 

 the posterior border of the thighs). The form hyacinthmiis (the one thit 

 occurs in Ohio) has smaller scales that usually exhibit a count in excess of 37; 

 it ranges from southeastern New York and New Jersey south to South Caro- 

 lina, and west to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Thus the inset map on page 

 23 indicates the approximate distribution of both imdulatns and hyacinthinus; 

 the two races intergrade where their ranges come together. For the use of the 

 name hyacinthinns see Sm.ith (1948). New Ohio records are: 



Ad.^MS County: (SL 438-9); Beaver Pond, 3'. 2 mi. FSE of Peeb es (UC 23). 

 Athens County: Athens (OUVC 574); Buchtel (OUVC 2436); Carbondale 

 rOUVC 22C4); Rainbow Lake, Alexander Twp. (OUVC 383); Waterloo State 

 Forest (OUVC 2369. 2433). Brown County: 5 ml. E of Ripley (WED 304-5). 

 Hocking County: Old Man"s Cave (WED 12). Holmes County: NW Richland 

 Twp. (OSM 518). Jackson Counts- (OSM 5C9; OUVC 312); Biocmfield Twp. 

 (OSM 5C8.1); lackson (OUVC 1268A-C); Jackson Twp. (OUVC 571); Liberty 

 Twp. vOSM 861.1-2); Rock Run area. Liberty Twp. (OSM 5C8.2). Jeffer ON 

 County: Amsterdam (OUVC 1284); Steubenviile (OUVC 332); near Yellow 

 Creek (CU 2567). Muskingum County: Duncan Falls (OSM 477). Pike 

 County: Pike State Forest (DPLM 163-6.42, 187.42, 251-62.44, 264-5.44, 584-6.44. 

 604.44; WED 7-11, 179); 1 mi. S of Piketon (OUVC 2411). Ross Counts': 

 (OSM 654); 2 mi. SE of Bainbridge (DPLM 263.44); Harrison Two. (OSM 

 717); Tar Hollow, Harrison Twp., near Hockma Co. line (UMMZ 98025A-C) ; 1 

 mi. W of Viao (OSM 513.1-2). Scioto County: (OSM 512.1-2); Roosevelt Game 



Preserve (OSM 619); Shawnee State Forest (WED 13. 185-6). ViNTON CoUNTY: 

 2 mi. S of Lake Hope (HTG) ; Old Hope Furnace. Lake Hope (OUVC 2211): 

 Zaleski State Park (WED 6). 



The specimen from Beaver Pond, Adams County (UC 26) apparently is 

 the largest Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus on record. It is a very stout- 

 bodied female measuring 197 mm. in total length: the head-body length is 84 

 mm., which e.xceeds Smith's (1946, 222) largest specimen by 5 mm. 



Wood advises me that he had several swifts from Pike County which 

 deposited eggs in captivity. One female laid eight on July 30, 1940, and two 

 others produced six and eight eggs, respectively, on July 3, 1942; these were 

 non-adherent, papery-shelled, and whitish in coloration, and they ranged from 

 1/2 to Yg^ of an inch in their long dimensions. Wood found a i ingle egq of 

 this species near the top of a shale outcropping in Tobacco Barn Hollow, Pike 

 County, on August 2, 1940. The egg was shaded from direct sunlight beneath 

 a tiny ledge, but it had apparently been deposited in the oven. It contained a 

 well-developed embryo. The first young of the year (in 1942) were noted on 

 September 1. 



Lygosoma laterale (Say) 

 Brown-Backed Skink 



(Page 26; maps 3 and 40; plate 3, fig. 2) 



The generic name of this lizard has been the subject of much argument. 

 Some herpetologists would use Laolopnma, but others believe that Leiolopisma 

 is merely a subgenus of the wide-ranging genus Lygosoma. The latter students 

 follow Malcolm A. Smith (1937) who, based upon his wide knowledge of 

 the reptiles of southern Asia, has come closer to providing us with a revision 



