HERPETOLOdlCAL NOTES FROM KANSAS AND TEXAS. )i9 



point about five miles west of Lewisville, considc^-ably north- 

 east of the most northeastern record with which I am ac- 

 quainted (Bexar and Erath counties: Cope). 



A red and black example of Contia episcopa isozona, 

 Cope, was captured in the road a few miles west of Sun City, 

 Kansas, on the point of the divide between Medicine Lod^e 

 river and Elk creek, and was sent to me several years since 

 by Mr. Wm. A. Sherrill. Of the several phases descrilied 

 from western territories by Cope in the Proceedings of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, this specimen 

 most resembles, and indeed almost precisely tallies with that 

 from Utah. I may remark in this connection that, of a small 

 collection of reptiles which I received a few years ago, through 

 Mr. John Pym. from southwestern Utah, all were, to my sur- 

 prise, species common in Kansas. 



In September, 1886, coming down the valley of the Cim- 

 arron river from New Mexico, I first noticed the little Sonoran 

 toad, Bufo dehilis, Girard, near the Z H ranch in the Public 

 Lands (now Beaver county, Oklahoma), at a point thirty-five 

 or forty miles west of the southwest corner of Kansas. The 

 species was observed a few days later in great abundance and 

 activity (during rainy weather) in Morton county, Kansas, 

 and in the southern part of Hamilton county. I have collected 

 a single specimen in the western part of Barber county, 

 Kansas, also. 



