Allen.] 178 [December 2, 



Tenny, and from Concord, from Mr. H. D. Thoreau. In the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Essex Institute (Vol. Ill, pp. 89 and 204) two speci- 

 mens are mentioned as having been presented to the Museum from 

 North Reading, one by j\Ir. Addison FUnt, and the other by Mr. 

 George F. Flint. It is extremely rare in New England, and though 

 first made known from the prairies of Illinois and Wisconsin, seems 

 not to be very common anywhere. 



Another species, Malacoclemnnjs pahmtris Ag. (Emys terrapin Hol- 

 brook), though southern in its distribution, is well known as an 

 inhabitant of Long Island and the shores of Rhode Island,^ and it is 

 quite probable that it will yet be found on the southeastern shore of 

 Massachusetts and the neighboring islands. 



Another species, the Chelonia miclas, seems not very unlikely to 

 occur on the southern coast as an accidental visitor from the south, 

 since there are on record a number of instances of its capture off 

 Sandy Hook, N. Y., and Mr. Linsley, in his " Catalogue of the Rep- 

 tiles of Connecticut," (Am. Journ. of Sc. and Arts, Vol. XLVI, 

 1844, p. 38), mentions its capture at Stratford, Stonington, and New 

 London. 



The names Testudo scahra and T. pennsi/lvanlca, occurring in Dr. 

 Smith's Ust, in Dr. Hitchcock's Geological Report for 1835, undoubt- 

 edly refer, as Dr. Storer has observed, respectively to Glyptemys 

 insculpta and Ozotheca odorata. 



A specimen of the blue-tailed lizard, Pleistodon laticeps Dum. and 

 BIbr., (^Scincus fasciatus Linn., Storer's Rep., p. 219) is stated by Dr. 

 Storer to have been sent him from Barre, and to have been found 

 " in a mud hole " in that place by Dr. Joseph N. Bates. Mr. Linsley , 

 (1. c, p. 41) gives it as occurring occasionally near New Haven. Dr. 

 De Kay says it is not uncommon in the southern counties of the State 

 of New York; but Massachusetts is quite beyond its usual north- 

 ward range, and it can be expected to occur here but rarely. 



The Brown Swift or Pine Lizard (^Tropidolepis undulatus Hol- 

 brook), a southern and western species, is given by Linsley from Con- 

 necticut, and Dr. De Kay notes its occurrence in Duchess and Put- 

 nam counties in New York. Though possibly occumng in this State, 

 we can find no recorded instance of its capture here. 



1 Holbrook, N. Am. Herp., I, 89; De Kay, Kat. Hist. N. Y., p. 11. 



