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than the large red-headed males and all but one (this specimen from 
the Kern River, twelve miles below Bodfish) retain some traces of the 
primary longitudinal striping. Of our seventeen adult ‘‘gilberti’’ 
from near the type locality only four are females and these are the 
smallest of the lot (maximum body length of females, ninety-two milli- 
meters; of males, 107). In the coast districts the males and females 
are of equal numbers and of the same size. Eight young specimens 
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from near the type locality of ‘‘gilberti’’? show as much variation in 
the position of the middle pair of dorsal white lines as does skiltont- 
anus from elsewhere. But a single individual from Yosemite Valley 
has the white stripes separated by only the two median scale rows. 
Others have from one-fourth to one-half of the second rows dark, as 
do specimens at hand from other parts of California. 
The upshot of the matter, then, is that all the California Eumeces 
are to be considered as a single species, skilionianus, which exhibits 
age and sex variations almost identical with those shown by the eastern 
skink, EH. quinquelineatus. According to Cope (1900, pp. 636-637) 
quinquelineatus ‘‘attains a much larger size in the more southern 
states than in the northern, there going through all the stages of 
coloration, and that the farther north the more is this restricted 
to the primary pattern.’’ A parallel situation seems to obtain in 
skiltonianus. 
Transmitted October 11, 1916. 
