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C2 Lateral scale rows oblique; color grayish black or with 



5 faint stripes; scales in 26 to 28 rows E. obsolelus 



bs Body with 4 Hght stripes. 



Ci Scales in 26 rows E. pluvial is. 



C2 Scales in 28 rows E. scptcntrionalis. 



as In the far West. 



bi Color blackish without stripes or with 5 faint stripes E. obsoletus. 



bo With 4 stripes E. skiltonianus. 



E. septentrionalis Baird. Body stout; tail seven-fourths the length 

 of the body; color light green with 4 dorsal black stripes and a lateral 

 black stripe on each side between 2 white ones: Minnesota, Iowa, 

 Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas. 



E.fasciatus (L.) (£. quinquelmeatusL.). Blue-tailed skink; scorpion 

 (Figs. 99, III). Length 240 mm.; tail 130 mm.; color black in youth 



Fig. III. — Eumeces fascialus {from Fowler). 



(100 mm.) with 5 dorsal yellow stripes on body and a blue tail, brown 

 or olive in adult males with the stripes faint or absent and the head red: 

 Massachusetts to Florida; westward to Arizona; up the Mississippi 

 Valley to Canada; rare and small (150 mm.) towards the north; common 

 in the south. 



E. obsoletus Baird and Girard. Body large, 300 mm. long ; color light 

 olive; young black with 5 faint stripes: Kansas to Colorado, Arizona 

 and Texas; southward into Mexico. 



E. anthracinus Baird. Length 157 mm.; tail loi mm.; color dark 

 olive green, with 2 light lines on each side between which is a black 

 band; tail bluish: Appalachian region. New York to North Carolina; 

 common. 



E. multivirgahis 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, Colorado and New Mexico. 



