AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES. 195 
Genus FumMEcEs Wiegmann, 
The Blue Tailed Skinks. 
Eumeces fasciatus (Linnzus). 
PLATE 50. 
Blue Tailed Lizard. Blue Tailed Skink. Skink. Blue Tail. 
Scorpion. Five Lined Lizard. 
Color blackish-olive with 5 longitudinal streaks, middle 1 
forked on head, and tail usually bright blue. Old examples 
OD LEP LED EF LF, 
MOOT EE 
Blue Tailed Lizard. Eumeces fasciatus (Linneus). 
with stripes wanting or obsolete, more or less reddish-olive, and 
head becoming coppery-red with age. A variable species reaching 
a length of 11 inches. 
I have not seen any New Jersey examples, and only know 
of its occurrence by reports. Messrs. Witmer Stone and J. A. G. 
Rehn say that persons residing near Jones’ Mill claim to find 
it in the cedar-slab piles. It 1s probably not so rare as one 
would suppose, though on account of being unfrequently seen 
by naturalists may be thought so. It is very swift in its move- 
ments and runs rapidly over the ground, and like the pine tree 
