1911] Graenicher, Records of Wisconsin Lizards. 81 



knowledge collected prior to 1890) ; two specimens from Cedar 

 Lake, Washington Co., Wis. (Nos. 480 and 490), collected July 

 22nd, 1888, by Prof Wm. M. Wheeler, at that time custodian of 

 the Public Museum of Milwaukee, now of Harvard University. 

 Specimen No. 488 from New Coeln is in the juvenile stage, and 

 shows the stripes very plainly ; the three remaining specimens are 

 adults, in which the stripes are more or less indistinct. 



All of these were collected over twenty years ago, at a time 

 when this lizard was undoubtedly more common in the two coun- 

 ties (Milwaukee and Washington), than at present. The four 

 specimens referred to above are the only ones which I have seen 

 from Wisconsin, but information received from various sources 

 leads me to believe, that this species is still present in one or more 

 of the counties north of us, Sheboygan Co., for example. 



Concerning the occurrence of the two remaining species of the 

 list: Sccloporus undulatus (Latreille), and Ophisaurus vcntralis 

 ( Linn.), the writer has no evidence to offer. Hoy had received a 

 specimen of Sceloporus undulatus (Fence Lizard) from Lafayette 

 county in 1850, and this was the only one he had seen from the 

 state up to 1883, the year in which his list was published. In 

 1879 Higley (Rept. and Batr. of Wis.) wrote that a few speci- 

 mens had been reported from this state (no particulars given), 

 but that he had not seen a specimen himself. In Cope's list of 

 specimens in the collection of the U. S. Nat. Mus. specimens from 

 Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are referred to, but none from Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. The information regarding the 

 presence of this lizard in our state is extremely meager, and we 

 are therefore inclined to consider it very rare, if it occurs at all. 



Ophisaurus vcntralis (Linn.) Glass Snake. This was, ac- 

 cording to Hoy (Loc. cit. p. 423) in early days not uncommon 

 near Kenosha, and occurred as far north as La Crosse. Higley's 

 list does not add anything to Hoy's information. Cope (Loc. cit. 

 p. 500) has seen a specimen from Baraboo, Wis. This large and 

 conspicuous reptile (a limbless lizard) has evidently disappeared 

 from southeastern Wisconsin, as a result of the combined activi- 

 ties of man and some of the domestic animals. As to its occur- 

 rence in other parts of the state at the present time, nothing has 



been heard whatever. 



Milwaukee Public Museum, 



March 24, 1011. 



