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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



the mouth of the llio Grande, and in eastern Mexico as far south as 

 Orizaba. The individuals from the Mississijipi Valley from New 

 Orleans to Indiana and Wisconsin are generally blacker above than 

 Texan specimens, and they have been regarded as a distinct species 

 under the name of IJ. faireyi. This is, however, only a melanistic phase 

 of the U.proxima. Specimens occur in my collection from Dallas, Texas, 

 and another black one in the U. S. National Museum comes from so far 

 west as Fort McKavett, which formerly stood on the Upper Llano Kiver. 



Besides the shorter tail, this species is readily known from the two 

 species just before described, by the increased difference in form between 

 the scales of the first and those of the other rows. Their form is dis- 

 tinctly different from that of the latter, but the diversity is not so great 

 as in the JE/. radix and other species which follow. 



A remarkable variety of this species comes from Fort Stockton, 

 Texas. A pale shade represents the dorsal stripe, and the generally 

 green colors are metallic in tbeir luster. (Cat. No. 5180.) The propor- 

 tions and scales are entirely normal. 



Eutunia prox'ima Sail. 



Catalogue 



No. 



7245 

 761 



5180 

 742 



741 



5488 



5487 



149 



731 



5484 



759 

 753 

 754 

 755 

 5486 

 9113 



759 



669 



757 

 5260 

 8940 



8061 



8062 



752 



5081 

 776 

 767 



7226 

 771 



5237 

 10726 

 10060 



12036 

 9964 

 9252 



12110 



12906 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



Headwaters of Colorado.. 



Brownsville, Texas 



Fort Stockton, Texas 



Pecos and Rio Grande, 



Texas. 

 Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana. 

 Grand Coteau, Louisiana. . 



Jalapa, Mexico 



Sierra Siin, Mexico 



Fox River, Wisconsin 



Matamoras, Mexico 



Red River, Arkansas 



San Pedro, Rio Grande . . . 



Medina, Texas 



Orizaba, Mexico 



Fort Riley, Kansas 



Wilmington, North Caro- 

 lina. 

 Caderita, N. Leon 



North Pecos River, Texas . 



Fort McKavett, Texas 



Fort Cobb, Texas 



Rock Island, Illinois . .^. . . 



Chicago, Illinois '. .. 



Prairie Mer Rouge, Loui- 

 siana. 



Wheelock, Texas 



Racine River, Wisconsin.. 



Verdigris River, Indian 

 Territory. 



St. Louis, Missouri 



Mississippi 



Neosho t'alls, Kansas 



Texas 



When 

 collected. 



Apr. —,1855 



From whom received. 



Capt. John Pope, U. S. A. 

 Capt. S.VanVliet,U.S.A. 



Patrick Dutfy 



Dr. C. B. R. kennerly... 



G. Wurdemann 



St. Charles College 



R. M.DOca 



Capt. John Pope, TJ. S. A. 



Prof. S. F. Baird , 



Lieutenant C o u c h, 



U. S. A. 

 Capt. R.B.Marcy,U.S.A. 

 Col.J.D.Grahaiii.U.S.A. 

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Nature of 

 specimen. 



Lieutenaut Couch, 

 U.S.A. 



W. S. Wood 



Dr. W. W. Anderson . . . 



Lieut. W. L. Carpenter, 

 U. S. A. 



St. James Parish, Loui- 

 siana. 



Mount Carniel, Illinois . . . 



Southern States 



Illinois 



St. James Parish, Loui- 

 siana. 



Apr. —,1879 

 Nov. —,1881 



James Paine . 



F. Kellogg 



Prof. S.F. Baird. 



Dr. Geo. Englemann. . 

 Dr. B. F. Shumard . . . . 



B. F. Goss 



George B. Sennett 



O. de la Peichardi^re. 



L. M. Turner 



R. Kennicott 



O. de la Peichardi6re. 



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