12 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Collection of Reptiles Made by Mr. C. J. Pierson at Fort 

 Smith, Arkansas, with Remarks on Other Eastern Rep- 

 tiles." (Wheeling, W. Va., 1899. Published by the 

 author.) McLain's notes are based on specimens pre- 

 sented to the museum of the Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity. We must either doubt some of his identifications 

 or else believe that some of Pierson 's material was incor- 

 rectly labeled as to locality, for it seems hardly possible 

 that such species as Clemmys insculptus LeConte, Tes- 

 tudo polyphemus Daudin and Thamnophis sackeni Kenn. 

 should occur so far out of their natural range. 



We are indebted to Dr. Seth Eugene Meek of Chicago 

 for a list of material collected at several stations in Ark- 

 ansas. This material is a part of the herpetological col- 

 lection of the Field Museum of Natural History. Mr. 

 Hurter takes this method of thanking Mr. John R. For- 

 dyce, of Little Rock, for assistance rendered him in col- 

 lecting material, as well as for other courtesies. 



We did not deem it necessary to append a bibliography 

 for the reason that in most of the literature at our dis- 

 posal the Arkansas fauna is referred to in only a general 

 way and furnishes very little authentic data. 



A careful perusal of Marcy's "Report on the Red 

 River Expedition" resulted in more eliminations than 

 additions to our original list. The lists of specimens in 

 Cope's "Crocodilians, Lizards and Snakes of North 

 America," furnished us with some data, but much less 

 than we had reason to expect, as this work is supposed 

 to give a list of all of the specimens of these animals that 

 were in the National Collection up to a short time prior 

 to the author's death. 



Most of the material collected by Hurter is in his 

 private collection. The Combs lot is widely scattered, 

 but examples of most of the species obtained by him are 

 in the Hurter and Baylor University collections. The 

 Hot Springs specimens in the National collection, se- 

 cured through Messrs. H. H. and C. S. Brimley, were 

 collected by Combs. 



