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damp places, such as are found throughout the redwood 

 forests of the Coast Range. Here it is usually found 

 under decaying logs or behind the loose bark of old 

 stumps. It is rather slow of movement and may easily 

 be caught with the hands. Its food consists of insects. 

 Vegetable matter is sometimes found in its stomach but 

 is the food of caterpillars eaten by the lizard. 



43. — Eumeces gilberti Van Denburgh. Red-headed 

 Skink. 



Eumeces gilberti, Van D., Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. (2), VI, 1896, p. 350 

 (type locality Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cali- 

 fornia). 



Description. — Body long and rounded, with long tail 

 and short legs. Nasal plate small, in contact with in- 

 ternasal, postnasal, first labial, and rostral. Postnasal 

 touching nasal, internasal, anterior loreal, and first and 

 second labial plates. Anterior loreal forming sutures 

 with postnasal, internasal, frontonasal, prefrontal, pos- 

 terior loreal, and second and third labials. Posterior 

 loreal larger than anterior and bordered behind by two 

 preoculars and first superciliary. Four large supraocu- 

 lars, first three touching long frontal. Interparietal 

 larger than either frontoparietal, but narrower than 

 usually in E. skiltonianus , and often not separating 

 parietals. Parietals very large and followed by one or 

 two pair of wide occipitals. Temporals very large. 

 Upper labials eight in number, eighth largest. Sym- 

 physeal very broad and followed by two wide azygous 

 sublabials and several large, paired sublabials in con- 

 tact with infralabials. All scales on body, limbs, and tail 

 similar in shape, very smooth, and strongly imbricate. 

 Median series of lower caudals greatly enlarged trans- 

 versely. Upper caudals about size of dorsals, larger 

 than laterals, veiitrals, and gulars. Twenty-four or 



