502 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Professor Edw. D. Cope, in Bulletin No. 34 of the United 

 States National Museum, 1889, North American Batrachia, 

 writes on page 134, " This species, including all varieties, 

 has an extensive range, being found throughout the United 

 States east of the Mississippi River." Last spring I was 

 surprised by my friend Mr. Colton Russell, of our city, 

 bringing me a salamander, which I recognized at once as the 

 species under consideration, and which he had found not far 

 from Creve Coeur Lake, St. Louis County. I afterwards found 

 a few more in the same neighborhood, but they were not 

 very abundant. The second kind of salamander is the hand- 

 somely marked species Ambly stoma opacum Gravenhorst. 

 We found eleven of them in Butler County, and three were 

 brought to me by Mr. George Miller, of St. Louis, who col- 

 lected them in Stoddard County. The salamander seems to 

 be quite common in that neighborhood. 



I wish also to call attention to the following species, 

 which I have found within the limits of the State in the last 

 few years : — 



Crotaphytus collaris Say, the Collared Lizard or Bull Liz- 

 ard, as the farmers call it, which is recorded in North Ameri- 

 can Fauna, No. 3, 1890, page 104, as being found in Kansas, 

 Indian Territory, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. 

 Say's specimens, in the National Museum, came from the Ver- 

 digris River, near its junction with the Neosho River, in the 

 Creek Nation, Indian Territory, and furnish the most eastern 

 record, so I was not a little astonished when we happened to 

 find this large lizard near Pevely, Jefferson County, in the 

 outrunners of the Ozark Mountains. • We afterwards also 

 found numbers of specimens in the mountainous and more 

 southern counties, e. ^., Washington, Phelps, St. Francois, 

 Madison and Iron Counties. This lizard carries its tail more 

 elevated when running, and not straight out backwards as all 

 the other lizards do. The species belongs to the Sonorian 

 region, and we find it here at its most eastern limit. This is 

 the largest species of lizard in the State, and we come now to 

 consider also the smallest kind, Lygosoma lalerale Say, the 

 Ground Lizard. This nimble animal is quite common in all 

 the Southern States, and also in all the southern counties of 



