ALABAMA AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES, 25 



GENUS: PLESTIODON, Dumeril and Bibron. 



PLESTIODON FASCIATUS (Linne) Baird 



{Eutneces quinqtielineatus Bocourt) 



Scorpion, Blue-Tailed Skink, Five-lined Lizard, Red-Headed 



Lizard 



Type locality: Carolina. 



General distribution : Southern New England to 

 Florida, up the Mississippi Valley to Canada, westward 

 to Arizona. 



Alabama records: Calhoun, Tuscaloosa, Bibb, 

 Greene, Sumter, Montgomery, Choctaw, Mobile and 

 Baldwin counties. 



PLESTIODON PLUVIALIS (Cope) 



Type locality : Mobile, Alabama. 



General distribution: "Central Gulf Area." (Stejne- 

 ger and Barbour.) 



Alabama records : We only know of the type speci- 

 men, which, according to Cope, was taken near Mobile, 

 Alabama, by Dr. Joseph Corson, U. S. A., and deposited 

 in the Cope Collection, Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. 



Intensive collecting and examination of hundreds of 

 specimens, all evidently belonging to the previous spe- 

 cies, by Mr. van Aller and the writer in Mobile and Bald- 

 win Counties has failed to turn up another record. 



