CATALOGUE OF REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS 
FOUND IN THE VICINITY OF ST. LOUIS, MO. 
JuLius HurtTer. 
The following catalogue is intended to give some additional 
data concerning the geographical distribution of these animals. 
Within the last few years the writer has found some 62 
species in the county of St. Louis, Mo., and in the adjacent 
counties across the river from St. Louis; St. Clair and 
Madison Counties, Ills. 
It is mainly the low lands or the so-called ‘* American Bot- 
tom’ along the river in these two last named counties that 
afford a good opportunity for collecting certain species that 
make their abode in or near water. 
The principal sources of information in preparing my list, 
together with my own observations for many years, are as 
follows :— 
First. The descriptive catalogue of American Reptilia and 
Batrachia found east of the Mississippi river, by N. 5. Davis, 
Jr., und Frank L. Rice, 1883. 
Second. A synopsis of the reptiles and batrachia of Illinois 
by H. Garman, 1892. | 
Third. Bulletin No. 24 of the U. S. National Museum; a 
check list of North American reptiles and batrachia with 
catalogue of specimens in the U. S. National Museum by H. 
C. Yarrow, M. D., which gives credit to Dr. George Engel- 
mann of St. Louis, for a number of contributions sent by him 
to the National Museum. I am also very much indebted to 
Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, curator of the reptiles of the Smith- 
sonian Institute of Washington, D. C., for the identification 
of a number of specimens. Before proceeding any further, 
I wish to call the attention of the academy to the fact that 
many of the States have included in their geological reports a 
report on the reptiles and batrachia of their respective States, 
such as Illinois, Indiana, etc. 
