500 



REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



and Bibron is very defective in proportious. The posterior limb rudi- 

 meut is not shown in tlie pelvic arch. This is figured by Slmfeldt,' 

 but he omits the interclavicle from the scapular arch. The pelvic 

 elements and limb are well figured by Miiller.- Fiirbringer's descrip- 

 tion is good, but he overlooks the rudimeutal femur. 



This "glass snake" is a rapacious feeder, living principally on the 

 numerous Arthropoda which abound in the regions it inhabits. I took 

 from the stomach of a specimen from Florida three ground spiders 

 C? Lycosa sp.), a grasshopper, a cricket, a cockroach, a coleopterous and 

 a lepidopterous larva, and a small snail. Its large intestine was packed 

 with the fragments of coleoptera. It feeds readily in confinement, 

 taking insects from the hand. If the insect is not promptly given up 

 to it when seized, it will pull and struggle to secure it, as a dog will 

 try to get a stick away from the hand of his master. 



Ophisaurus ventralis Linnceua. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



4169 

 4168 

 4170 

 5137 

 5138 

 5038 

 9260 



6419 

 5089 

 0359 

 5135 

 8978 

 9358 

 5323 

 4985 

 5131 

 5130 

 6078 

 5129 



6073 

 9360 

 9357 

 9687 

 10584 

 10714 

 11400 



12048 

 32U1 

 3193 

 12754 

 12783 

 13383 



13685 

 U(I7G 

 14515 

 15535-7 

 1G949 

 18024 

 14724 

 9350 

 20811 

 13809 

 13685 

 14142 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Knoxville, Tennessee. 

 Indian River, Florida. 



Liberty County, Georgia . 



Fort Morgan, Georgia 



Georgia 



Wilmington, KortLi Caro- 

 lina. 



Newberii, Nortb Carolina. 



Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana 



St. Johns Kiver, Florida . . 



Micanopy, Florida 



Florida ." 



Pensacola. Florida 



Missis8ipj)i 



Arliansas 



St. Louis, Missouri 



Charleston, Soutb Carolina 



Jalapa, Mexico 



Between Arkansas Eiver 

 and Ciiuniaron Kiver, 

 New Mexico. 



Fort Scott, Arkansas 



Kansas 



Arlington, Florida 



Clearwater, Florida 



Baraboo, Wisconsin 



Fort Macon, North Caro- 

 lina. 



Mount Carniel, Illinois 



IndiauolatoNeuies, Texas 



St. Louis, Missouri 



Hawkiusville, Georgia 



Gainesville, Florida 



Statesville, Nortb Caro- 

 lina. 



Nebraska 



Gainesville, Texas 



Cook County, Texas 



Umatilla, Florida 



Greenville, Soutb Carolina 

 Rockwood, Tennessee 



Micanopy, Florida 



Blackvilie, South Carolina 



Georgiaua, Florida 



Pilottown, Florida 



When col- 

 lected. 



From wbom received. 



Mitcbell 



(}. Wurdemann 



Charleston College . 

 Dr. W. L. Jones . . - . 



G. Wurdemann 



Dr. W. L. Jones . . . . 



Capt. Wm. Holden 

 G. Wurdemann ... 

 G. Brown Goode... 

 Dr. J. H. Bean 



Dr. B. F. Shumard . . . 

 Dr. Geo. Engelmami 



J. Fairie 



May — , 1878 

 July 14, 1879 

 Oct. — , 1880 

 — , 1871 



Nov. — , 1881 



Lieut. Eustis, U. S. A. 



G. Brown Goode.. 



S.T.Walker 



J.W.Wood 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow 



L. M. Turner 



Capt. Pope 



Dr. Geo. Engelmann. 



J. B. McDuffie 



Ja.s. Bell 



J. A. D. Stephensou . 



E.M. Shaw 



G. H. Ragsdale . 



do 



C. L. Hopkins .. 

 I.C.Fitzgerald. 

 Br. J. A. Sewell 



Dr. W. C.Jobnson. 

 Dr. S. B. Lartiqiie . 

 Wm. Wittefield . . . 

 C.C. Nutting 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Alcobolic. 

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' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1882, figs. 4, 5. 

 ■^ Zeitschr. f. Pbysiolgie, IV, pi. xix, fig. 3. 



