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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



A second specimen, received from northern Indiann, sliows tliat tbe spe- 

 cies ranges over tlie entire State. It oidj^ differs from tlje type in 

 rather darker colors. 



This liandsome species is dedicated to Mr. A. W. Bntler, of Brook- 

 ville, Indiana, who lent me the type specimen for examination, and whose 

 interest and labor in the natural sciences have resulted in many inter- 

 esting discoveries. 



J'Jutwnia hutlerii Cope.^ 



Mr. G. Eeddick reports- that the Indiana University summer school 

 took a single specimen of this species at Turkey Lake, Kosciusko 

 County, Indiana. He says: 



It is 14| inches long. It is short and chubby, and its movement is very charac- 

 teristic of it. It does not have tbe gliding movement of E. sanrifa, nor tbe swilt 

 and active movement of the Xatrlr sipedon, but seems rather to exert a lai ge amount 

 of force to do little crawling. The movement is so characteristic that I believe any 

 one having once seen the peculiar way in which it tries to hurry itself away would 

 ever after be able to recognize it at a distance. 



EUT^NIA BISCUTATA Cope. 



Eutania bisciifata Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 21. 



Of this species I have only two specimens, which agree in the follow- 

 ing characters : They differ in the number of rows of scales, however, 

 one having twenty-three and the other having twenty-two. All the 

 rows of scales keeled, the median ones very strongly. Labials eight, 

 the eye resting on the fourth and fifth. Two i^reoculars; three post- 

 oculars. The muzzle is rather short, the frontal i)late exceeding in 

 length the region anterior to it and equaling the common sutnrc of the 

 l)arietal scuta. Nasals rather short; loreal as long as high; inferior 

 pieocular nearly square; superior preocular not reaching frontal. 

 Superior labials all truncate above and none of them elevated, the sixth 

 touching the inferior postorbital. Temporals, 1-2-;}; tlie anterior ai-e 

 rather large. Pairs of geneials subequal. Gastrosteges, one hundred 



'The EuUvnia ruUlons (Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 388) which is com- 

 pared with the E. iutlerii in the analytical table of species, is from Cozumel Island, 

 Yucatan. 



It resembles in coloration and in the keeled first row of scales the E. sackoii of 

 Florida. It differs in the shorter tail, which is one-third the length in the E. sackeni, 

 in the eight superior labials, and in the generally stouter proportions, .ns well as in 

 the red lips. 



This species wan taken by tbe naturalists of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 Allifiiroxn on Cozumel Island, off tbe ca^t coast of Yucatan. 



^Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 189.5, p. 261. 



