CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 623 



body. The hind legs applied twice forward reach halfway between 

 arm aud ear; contained three times in head and body. Fifth hind toe 

 shorter than second. Free portion of longest toe half the head. 



Upper iVciTts of head aud body uniform reddish olive, sometimes 

 bronzed or greenish for a width of about six rows ol" scales. This on 

 the edges changes indistinctly to a light Hue, which appears to be ou 

 the adjacent edges of two rows of scales. Immediately below this is a 

 blackish lateral stripe from the nose and through the eye about If 

 scales wide, with or without a white line below it, and below the sides 

 are striped alternately with dusky and lighter. Under parts yellowish 

 white with faint lines along the adjacent edge 

 of scales. Tail sometimes greenish or pale livid 

 beneath. 



The color varies above to a considerable extent, 

 and sometimes (including the top of head) is 

 irregularly spotted with blackish. The upper 

 lateral dusky stripe is well defined above, some- 

 times very faint below. The alternating dark 

 and light lines are sometimes quite uniform 

 dusky or dusky, dotted with lighter by the break- 

 ing up of the light lines. The scales beneath ^'?- ^-^■ 

 have generally a bronzed or brassy reflection, t.iolepisma laterale say. 

 and the lines along the iunction of the rows of ^, ,/ '' ,. 



^ ^ Jfortn Carolina. 



scales sometimes quite distinct. Sometimes cat. xo. 4971, u.s.n.m. 



there are faint traces of light Ihies along the 



centers of the dorsal rows of scales. There may generally be detected 

 two light lines below the dark lateral baud 1 to If scales apart, after which 

 each row of scales is light along the center and finely mottled externally. 



The lower edge of the larger lateral dusky stripe is frequently efl'aced. 

 The dark spots on the dorsal surface sometimes exhibit a tendency to 

 linear arrangement in two series. 



I can not distinguish Texas specimens from more Eastern ones, though 

 it is possible that, if the outlines of the scales and plates were more 

 distinct, characteristic features might be found. The lateral black 

 stripes are perhaps better defined aud the arrangement of the dorsal 

 dark specks into ten series more marke<l. 



Cat. No. 3152, from Arkansas, collected by I)r. Woodhouse, difiers in 

 having the broad dorsal band divided into three, a central darker cover- 

 ing four rows of scales and two lateral lighter two-thirds as wide. The 

 central strii)e is darker externally and rather more so along the center, 

 and may almost be considered as formed of lines, or three lines, the 

 breaking of which may l)e considered as producing the dots found in 

 some specimens, and as illustrating the primary pattern of coloration 

 (two dark lines along the middle of the back, two rows of scales apart). 



This species ranges over the Austroriparian region, extending into 

 the Carohnian district of the Eastern as far as liurlington County, Xew 



