CROCODILIAN!?, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 

 Eumeces multivirgatus Hallowell. 



655 



Catalogue 

 No. 



3163 

 3142 

 3158 

 9219 

 9264 



3122 

 4139 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Pole Creek, Nebraska 



KuuniDg Water River 



Bluffs Pole Creek 



Fort KL-arney, Kansas 



100 miles east of Fort 



Laramie. 



Rio Pecos. Texas 



Saud Hilld, Platte River, 



Nebraska. 



"When col- 

 lected. 



July 25, 1856 



From whom received. 



Capt. Bryan 



Gen. Warren 



Capt. Bryan 



? [ 



Dr. Cooper 



Capt. J. Pope 



Dr. F. V. Hayden 



Nature of 

 specimen. 



Types of 

 "P. inorn- 

 atus. 



This species is characteristic of the Central zoological district. 



EUMECES EGREGlUS Baird. 



Eumeces egregius Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. aud Rept., 1875, p. 45. 

 PlesUodon egregius B.\iKi), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 256. 

 P. onocrepis Cope, 2d aud 3d Ann. Report Peabody Acad. Sci., 1871, p. 82. 

 Eumeces onocrepis Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. and Rept., 1875, p. 45. 



Body slender, cylindrical, vermiform, flattened a little above. Ears 

 excessively minute. Legs very small. The preloreal in contact above 

 with the transversely elongated internasal. Three supraorbitals or 

 four, including the one 

 in contact with the lo- 

 real. Hinder edge of 

 postnasal a little ante- 

 rior to that of second 

 labial. Two transverse 

 plates at end of chin. 

 Seven upper labials. 

 Lower eyelid plated. 

 Scales in twenty - two 

 rows round body and 

 sixty-five from head to 

 tail; the two median dor- 

 sal considerably broader than the rest. Distance from snout to middle 

 of insertion of fore leg one-third that to hind leg. Hind legs applied for- 

 ward thrice reach to ear ; contained nearly four times in head and body; 

 from knee, four andone half times ; head, five times. Fifth hind toe shorter 

 than second; free portion of longest two-thirds the side of the head. 



Above reddish or greenish, olivaceous or ashy, with four principal 

 nearly equidistant white stripes, two on each side, on the centers of rows 

 of scales, and margined with dotted lines of dusky. A third intermedi- 

 ate line traceable anteriorly. Upper lateral sti-ipes separated by two 

 plain rows of scales ; sides between the stripes with the scales edged be- 

 hind with dusky. The lower lateral stripe begins on the labial and passes 

 above the ears; beneath, white with a tinge of salmon color. 



This species is very small and delicate, the limbs weak, although the 

 toes are very long. The head is conical, pointed. The ears are very 

 minute, not larger than the puncture of a fine pin. 



Fig. 132. 



Eumeces egregius Baird. 



X 2. 



Florida. 



Cat. No. 19981, U.S.N.M. 



