REPTILES 207 



P. mtiUivir gains Hallowell. Body cylindrical; legs far apart; tail 

 three-halves the length of the body; color pale olive with 4 or 5 stripes on 

 each side : Nebraska to northern Texas. 



P. pluvialis (Cope). Body small and rather stout with 4 green 

 stripes; belly green: southern Alabama. 



P. egregins Baird. Body very small and vermiform; legs small and 

 weak; length 100 mm.; color reddish or greenish, with 4 white stripes* 

 southern Florida and the Keys. 



P. guttulatns (Hallowell). Length 150 mm.; color black in the 

 voung with bluish-white spots on the head; adult olive with faint spots; 

 bodv with 30 rows of scales: Texas to Arizona. 



Fig. 112. — Leiolopisma laleralc {from Ditmars). 



P. tetragrammus Baird. Length 150 mm.; color dark oHve with 2 

 yellowish stripes on each side; body with 26 to 28 rows of scales: Texas. 



P. skiltonianus B. & G. Length 150 mm.; tail 90 mm.; color oUve 

 green, with a dark band bordered by a white line above and below on 

 each side; body with 26 rows of scales: western Oregon to Lower Cali- 

 fornia; common. 



2. Leiolopisma Dumeril & Bibron. Body elongate, small, cylin- 

 drical ear-opening very large, exposed; legs very small; lower eyehd 

 with a transparent disk; palate toothless: 28 species, cosmopolitan, 

 I in America. 



L. laterale (Say) (Fig. 112). Length 80 mm.; tail 40 mm.; color 

 olive brown, sometimes irregularly spotted, with a black band edged 

 with white on each side; abdomen yellow; tail blue below: southern 

 New Jersey to Florida, westward to Illinois and Texas; rare in the north, 

 abundant in the south; terrestrial. 



3. Neoseps Stejneger. Body vermiform ; fore leg rudimentary, with 

 a single digit; hind leg very weak, with 2 digits; ear hidden: i species. 



N. reynoldsi Stej. Length 85 mm.; tail 27 mm.; color drab, each 

 scale with a brown spot, these spots forming 4 dark stripes on the back 

 and a broad lateral stripe on each side : Lake County, Florida, burrowing 

 in the ground. 



Family 10. Lepostemidae. — Vermiform lizards without legs, scales 

 or external ear-opening; teeth pleurodont; eyes concealed; body ringed: 

 60 species, i in the United States. 



