SOME RECORDS OF WISCONSIN LIZARDS. 

 By S. Graenicher. 



The main object of this paper is to report the occurrence of a 

 lizard: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Linn.) within the confines 

 of our state. At the same time a few records are given for two 

 of the species, that have figured in the previous lists of the reptiles 

 of Wisconsin. 



In Dr. Hoy's list 1 , published in 1883, the following three 

 species of lizards: Bumeces septentrionalis (Baird), Sceloporus 

 undulatus (Latreille), and Ophisaarus ventralis (Linn.) were 

 considered as members of our fauna, and in 1889 Prof Higley 2 

 added a fourth species: Bumeces qitinqiicliiieatus (Linn.) to the 

 list. 



Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Linn.), the "Race Runner." rep- 

 resents the fifth species of lizard found in Wisconsin. A specimen 

 in the collection of the Public Museum in Milwaukee (No. 11 10) 

 was taken by a member of the museum collecting expedition at 

 Prescott, Pierce Co., Wis., July 8, 1910. Several specimens 

 were seen in the same locality, ( about two miles south of Prescott, 

 near a picturesque deep ravine, which is known by the name of 

 "Pine Coulee"), but owing to their swiftness, all but one escaped. 

 As to the distribution of this species Cope 3 states that "it covers 

 the Austroriparian region of the Nearctic realm and the Eastern 

 as far as the range of the Carolinian district, extending to Mary- 

 land and Delaware, but not New Jersey. In the Central region 

 it reaches north to the Sand Hills of the Loup Fork river of 

 Nebraska." Ditmars 4 , in 1907 likewise refers to northern Ne- 



1. P. R. Hoy. Catalogue of the cold-blooded vertebrates of "Wis- 

 consin. I. Reptiles. Geology of Wisconsin Vol. I, pp. 422-42^,. 



2. W. K. Higley Reptilia and Batrachia of Wisconsin. Trans. Wis. 

 Ac. Sc. A. & L. Vol. VII, pp. 155-176. 



3 E. D. Cope. The Crocodilians, lizards and snakes of North 

 America. Rept. U. S. Nat. Mus. 189S. 



4. Raymond Lee Ditmars. The Reptile book, 1907. 



