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leaf-hoppers. These lizards are often found climbing weeds or 

 brush. One of this species was observed clinging to an old sun- 

 flower stalk three feet from the ground. In color the lizard mimicked 

 the weed so perfectly that it would escape ordinary notice. It 

 was, no doubt, lurking there for the purpose of catching insects. 



The Horned toad {Phrynosonia cornutum) examined had eaten 

 a great number of small beetles. This species is not as common in 

 Kansas as it was formerly. 



The Glass snake ( Ophisaurus ventralis) , on account of its size, 

 eats as much as some of our snakes. A specimen collected at Law- 

 rence contained three large grasshoppers, one cricket, and one large 

 caterpillar. 



The Long- tailed swift {Ciiemidophorus sexlineaUis) can run 

 with such speed that no insect can escape it, except by flight. 

 Even the wary tiger-beetle does not escape. This lizard is very 

 long and slender and runs as quick as a flash. It abounds in 

 grassy, sandy regions. It lives upon grasshoppers, cockroaches, 

 tiger- beetles, and other beetles. 



Eumeces ohsoletus, the common scink, a large, powerful, smooth- 

 scaled lizard, will tackle animals as large as itself. One of these, 

 kept in captivity with some snakes, attempted to kill a Spreading 

 adder by seizing it by the neck and shaking it. The adder was a 

 foot long. The two were separated after the process had gone on 

 for a time. This specimen was put in a cage with a young Col- 

 lared lizard ( Crotaphytus coUaris) about three inches long. In a 

 few days the cage was opened and nothing but a few mutilated 

 bones of the smaller lizard were to be found. The seine had evi- 

 dently devoured the little fellow and ejected the bones. This 

 species is found under rocks on rocky hillsides. The stomach ex- 

 amined contained large grasshoppers and crickets. One specimen, 

 in addition to this menu, had eaten a large ground-spider. 



Eumeces guUulatus, the Blue-tailed scink, in form very much 

 as the above but hardly more than three inches long and of a blu- 

 ish-black color; hides under rocks. A pretty little fellow, not so 

 repulsive as his close relative, ohsoletus, he darts among the rocks 

 with such agility that he is caught with great difficulty. The 

 stomach of a single specimen contained a fly, a spider, two leaf- 

 hoppers, and a cricket. Two specimens kept in captivity ate flies 

 and grasshoppers with avidity. Five specimens of Sceloporus un- 

 dulatus were placed in the same cage with them. Three of these 

 were young, varying in size from three-fourths of an inch to an 

 inch and one-half in length. In a few days no trace of the young 



