CHECKLIST OF REPTILES OF MEXICO 163 



EUMECES ALTAMIRANl Dngfes 



Eumeces altamirani Ducfes, La Naturaleza, ser. 2, vol. 1, 1887-1890 (1891), 

 pp. 485, 486, pi. 22, 6 figs.— Taylor, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 49, 

 1936, pp. 55-58; Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 23, 1935 (1936), pp. 102-103, 

 fig. 6, pi. 2. — Smith and Neckeu, Anal. Esc. Nac. Cienc. Biol., vol. 3, 1943, 

 pp. 190-192. 



Type. — In Museo "Alfredo Duges" in Colegio del Estado de 

 Guanajuato in Guanajuato (without number) ; Federico Altamirano 

 collector. 



Type locality. — "Regiones Calidas del Estado de Michoacan" 

 Gater designated by Duges as Apatzingan de la Constituci6n, Mich- 

 oacan) . 



Range. — Known only from Michoac§,n, on the southern slopes of 

 the plateau. Reported from El Sabino, Apatzingan. 



EUMECES LYNXE LYNXE (Wiegmann) 



Scincus quinquelineatus var., Wiegmann, Isis von Oken, 1828, p. 373 {non 



Linnaeus). 

 Plestiodon quinquelineatum, Dumeril and Bibron, ErpcStologie g^n^rale, vol. 5, 



1839, pp. 707-708 (part). 

 Euprepes lynxe Wiegmann, Herpetologia Mexicana, 1834, pp. 36-37. 

 Eumeces lynxe, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864, p. 484. — Smith, 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 39, 1949, p. 41. 

 Eumeces lynxe lynxe, Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1935 (1936), 



pp. 163-173, pi. 41, figs. 18, 19, fig. B. 

 Plestiodon Bellii Gray, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of 



the British Museum, 1845, p. 92 (type locality not designated, here restricted 



to El Chico, Hidalgo). 



Type.— Zool. Mus., Berlin; F. Deppe collector. 



Type locality. — "Specimena nostra prope Chico invenit Deppe." 

 \erj probably (and here restricted to) El Chico (or Mineral El Chico) 

 near Pachuca, Hidalgo, where the species has been found to be abun- 

 dant. 



Range. — Known definitely from Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis 

 Potosi and Puebla; recorded, probably erroneously, from Guerrero, 

 Guanajuato and Michoacan. Reported from Hidalgo: Zacualtipan, 

 San Miguel, Guerrero, Durango, El Chico; Vtracruz: Jalapa, Mount 

 Orizahsi; San Luis Potosi: Alvavez; Puebla: Zacatlan. 



EUMECES LYNXE FURCIROSTRIS Cope 



Eumeces furcirostris Cope, Proc. American Philos. Soc, vol. 22, 1885, pp. 169- 

 170.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1935 (1936), pp. 173- 

 178, figs. 18, 20; Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 29, 1943, pp. 272-273. 



Type.— Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia No. 11327; Dr. Flohr collector. 



Type locality.— J aXsiipSi, Veracruz. 



Range. — Puebla, central northern Veracruz, and possibly eastern 

 Hidalgo. Reported from Puebla: Tezuitlan; Veracruz: Toxtlacuaya, 

 Jalapa, Las Vigas, Cofre de Perote; Hidalgo: Zacualtipan. 



