124 OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCH. 
Family: ANGUIDAE. 
Ophisaurus ventralis Linn. Olive-green or brown, yellowish below. 
Legs wanting, body snake-like. Tongue not cleft as in snakes. Preanal 
scales generally eight (8) in number. A conspicuous fold along sides. Tail 
very brittle. Length 2 feet. 
The Glass-snake derives its name from the readiness with 
which the tail breaks in pieces. ‘This is due to the fact that the 
vertebrae in the tail are bony only at their ends, the centres 
remaining unossified and hence are readily separable. Although 
a snake in appearance, it is yet a lizard without legs. It may be 
told at once from any other Ohio reptile by its snake-like appear- 
ance and its non-forked tongue. 
It is included here on the strength of a single specimen taken 
on the University farm by Dr. Townshend and is at present in the 
O. S. U. Zool. Mus. It was killed in a hay field, having been 
shaken out of a stack of hay. ‘That it is valid is certain and it is 
but a few hundred miles out of its usual range. Hay (’92, p. 
542) gives it as occurring in northern Indiana. 
In the O. S. U. Mus., collected by Dr. Townshend at Columbus. 
Family: "TEIDAR. 
*Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (I,.). Brownish alove, with six dorsal 
streaks. A silvery spot on throat. A median dorsal band of brown. Tongue 
bifid, snake-like. A double fold across neck. Length 6~7 inches. 
This isa very common form within its range, which is, in 
the main, southerly and westerly. It occurs from New Jersey to 
the mountains in the West. It has no Ohio record. 
Family : SCINCIDAE. 
*Liolepisma laterale Say. Head angular, pyramid-shaped, with apex 
directed forward. Above reddish-olive to bronze or greenish. A light line 
on sides, below which, on level of eye runs a second darker line, while below 
the two, a white line. Ventro-laterally, striped alternately light and dark. 
Under parts yellowish. ‘Tail blue below. Length 5 inches. 
This is a Southern form, straggling north to Indiana. Its 
status as an Ohio lizard is not without question. Smith (’82) 
states that he has not seen it from the State. Kirtland (’38) 
speaks of it in a note as follows: ‘‘.S. /ateralis was shown to me 
by Mr. Dorfeuille, as an inhabitant of Ohio.’’ Dorfeuille was a 
