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of this handsome little lizard from Manhattan, through Prof Popenoe. It 

 is also represented from Kansas in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy 

 (Nolan), and is doubtfully recorded from the upper Arkansas by Baird. 



Eumeees ohsoletus B. & G. Specimens from Douglas county, where the 

 species seems to be common, exhibit marked variations in color and in the 

 arrangement of the anterior cephalic plates. (See Bulletin 20, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., p. 39.) 



Eumeees septentrionalis Bd.: Northern Skink. A single specimen from 

 Neosho Falls is in the National Museum (Brown). 



Oligosoma laterale Say. : Ground Lizard. Prof Popenoe writes that it is 

 not rare at Topeka, occun-ing with E. fasciatus. A specimen from that 

 locality, for which I am indebted to him, has the scales in twenty-eight rows. 

 There is a specimen from Fort Scott in the National Museum (Brown). 



OPHIDIA. 



COLUBRID^. 



Heterodon simus Linn., var. nasicus B. & G. Fort Riley (Brown), Ft. 

 Hays (German), Wallace county (Mozley). A specimen collected by Prof. 

 Popenoe in Phillips county, is in the State House collection. Snakes of this 

 genus are popularly known in Kansas under the name of "blow snakes." 



Heterodon swms Linn. Wallace county (Mozley), Ft. Riley (Nolan) 



Heterodon platyrhinus Latr., var. aimodes B. & G. Douglas county (Moz- 

 ley). 



Heterodon platyrhinus Latr.: Hog-nose. Three specimens in National 

 Museum from Ft. Riley (Brown), Douglas county (Mozley). A specimen 

 taken by Prof. Popenoe in Rooks county, is in the collection at the State 

 House. 



Tropidonotus rhombifer Hallow. : Holbrook's Water Snake. Douglas county 

 (Snow). 



Tropidonotus sipedon l^mn.,va.r. erythrogaster ^hayv: Copper-belly. Kan- 

 sas (Cope). 



Tropidonotus sipedon Linn.: Water Snake. Douglas county (Mozley), 

 Ft. Riley (Brown). Fifty miles northwest of Ft. Riley (Nolan). The col- 

 lection at the State House includes a specimen from Saline county. 



Tropidonotus grahaviii B. & G. : Graham's Snake. Taken in Douglas 

 county (Snow). 



Tropidoclonium lineatum Hallow. This species, first described by Hallo- 

 well in 1856; was based on a specimen taken in Kansas by Dr. Hammond 

 Two specimens, taken in Douglas county, are in the museum of the State. 

 University (Snow) ; and another, from Neosho Falls, is in the National Mu- 

 seum (Brown). 



StoreriadekayilS.oVoY.: De Kay's Brown Snake. Taken in Douglas county 

 (Snow). One specimen in the National Museum, from Kansas (Brown). 



Storeria occipitomaculata Stover: Spot-necked Snake. Taken in Douglas 

 county (Snow). Taken in Kansas by Dr. Hammond (Nolan). 



