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Eumeces multivirgabus, Hallowell. — Neosho Falls; collected by Col. N. S. Goss. This 

 skink was included in the supplement of ruy preliminary catalogue only as one rather 

 likely to be found in Kansas. 



Tropidonoltis leberis, Linn., var. Grahamii, B. & <L: Graham's Queen Snake. — Neosho 

 Falls ; collected by Col. N. S. Goss. 



Sim-,, -in lineata, Hallowell: Line Snake. — This is the Tropidodonium lineatum oi my 

 preliminary catalogue. It proves to be one of the commonest serpents of Kansas. 

 Every State has its ' : School-boy's Snake," a snake of small size and meek demeanor, 

 though a horror to the uninitiated, which the untamed urchin of school and field carries 

 about in his pocket or fist for purposes of terrorism. This " School-boy's Snake " of Kan- 

 sas is the Line Snake. 



Eutamia sirtalis, Linn., var. Piekeringii, B. ei G.: Pickering's Garter Snake. — McPher- 

 son county, from Dr. John Kundstrom. 



Eutcenia sirtalis, Linn., var. obscura, Cope MSS. — Dr. Yarrow's Check-list shows that 

 this variety of the Garter Snake ranges over the entire area of the United States. Eight 

 of the specimens appear to have come from Kansas, the following localities being re- 

 corded: Cimarron river, a point between the Cimarron and the Arkansas, Republican 

 river, and Little Blue river. 



Eutcenia proximo, Say : Long's Garter Snake. — Dr. Yarrow records a specimen from 

 Fort Riley, Kansas. 



Pituophis catenifer, Blainv., var. bellona, B. & G.: Western Bull Snake. — This species 

 also is recorded from Fort Riley in Dr. Yarrow's Check-list. 



Elaphis qiiadrivitattus, Holbr. : Chicken Snake. — Dr. Yarrow's record, "Kansas" for 

 this snake, adds another southern species to a fauna which, though a, prairie fauna, has 

 already shown that it has much in common with the Austroriparian. 



Oyclophis cestivus, Linn.: Southern Green Snake. — Among the specimens submitted 

 by Col. N. S. Goss is one of this species. It is from Neosho Falls. A second specimen 

 of uncertain locality in the collection of the Topcka Free Library was presented with 

 other Kansas specimens, and was probably taken in Kansas. A third specimen seems to 

 have been taken at Great Bend by Messrs. E. G. Buckland and H. B. Torrey. This is 

 another Austroriparian species. 



TantiUa HaUowellii, Cope : Hallowell's Tantilla. — This species was originally described 

 in 1856 as a variety of T. gracilis by Dr. Hallowell from a specimen collected in Kansas 

 by Dr. Hammond, (Proceed. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1850, p. 246,) and afterwards named 

 as distinct by Prof. Cope. (Proceed. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1860, p. 77.) Mr. Garman, 

 of the Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology, in his excellent account of the 

 Ophidia of North America, "North American Reptiles, Part I," reduces it to a variety 

 under T. gracilis. As it does not appear that any of the allusions to this species have 

 been based upon more than one or two specimens, it seems necessary to await the acces- 

 sion of further material before the specific identity of Hallowellii with gracilis can be 

 either asserted or denied. 



Sistruru8 catenatus, Raf.: Massasauga. — Taken in Ford county by the writer. It is 

 recorded from the Verdigris river [Kansas?] in Dr. Yarrow's Check-list. The Ford 

 county specimen is typical, and the locality is the most westerly known for the species. 

 This is the Caudisonn tergemina (erroneously printed "tergermina" in my "Preliminary 

 Catalogue.") Mr. (xarman's substitution of a fourth generic name in the stead of either 

 of the three to which the plated-headed rattlesnakes had previously been referred, seems 

 to have been the proper and indeed the only logical remedy for the confusion that ex- 

 isted, inasmuch as no new genus, nor even sub-genus, had previously been created for 

 those forms, the generic names previously used for them being preoccupied and long 

 used with a very different signification. 



Amblystoma microstoma, Cope: Small-mouthed Salamander. — A specimen of this sala- 



