196 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



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

 stripes; belly green: Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Texas. 



E. egregius 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. 



E. skiltonianus B. & G. Length 150 mm.; tail 90 mm.; color olive 

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

 each side; body with 26 rows of scales: Washington to Lower California; 

 Nevada and Utah; common. 



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

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

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

 America. 



Fig. 112. — Leiolopisma unicolor {from Dilmars). 



L. unicolor (Harlan) (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 Kansas 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 9. Amphisbaenidae. — Vermiform lizards without legs, 

 scales or external ear-opening; teeth pleurodont; eyes concealed; body 

 ringed: 60 species, i in the United States. 



Rhineura Cope. With the characters of the family: i species. 



R.fioridana (Baird). Length 2 20 mm.; tail 170 mm.; color lavender: 

 Florida; burrowing in soft soil and with the appearance of a large 

 earthworm. 



Order 3. Serpentes. — Snakes. Very elongate reptiles, covered 

 with horny imbricate scales, and without limbs, tympanum or external 

 ear-opening, or functional eyelids. The bones of the jaws are very 



