The Inzards of Kansas 25 
a female of S. spinosus from Texas. Bishop (1926) 
found a large Kentucky female on June 24, 1925, with 
eight well-developed eggs in her body. Hassler (1927) 
reported the finding of five newly hatched young in New 
York in September, 1926. They were taken ‘among the 
leaves and grass at the base of a small ledge.’? 
The above discussions indicate that from eight to ten 
eggs are laid sometime in June, and that they hatch a 
month or two later, depending upon the conditions of 
incubation. 
The food of the pine lizard consists essentially of 
small insects and spiders. 
Discussion of Kansas Records. — Because of the es- 
pecial interest aroused by the question of possible inter- 
gradation in a place where the areas of distribution of 
two supposed subspecies approach each other, this head- 
ing is deemed a necessity. Atchison County; Prof. Felix 
Nolte of St. Benedict’s College collected a pine lizard at 
Atchison in May, 1927. Cherokee County; Mr. W. H. 
Burt collected four lizards on September 6, 1926, near 
Shoal Creek, which Dr. Edward H. Taylor and the writer 
have identified as this subspecies. Geary County; Dr. 
F’. W. Cragin (1881) gave a report from this area, and, 
unfortunately, his specimens have been lost. In addition 
to this, Cope (1900) reported four Townsend specimens 
from Ft. Riley under the United States National Museum 
number ‘‘4852.’? The data upon these specimens are 
obscure. This fact, the loss of Cragin’s specimens and 
the knowledge that the distinctions upon which the two 
subspecies of S. undulatus are separated have often been 
close, is the basis of listing these as doubtful records. 
McPherson and Rooks Counties; These reports of 
Cragin (1881) are decidedly in the range of S. undulatus 
thayerii, and the specimens upon which ey were based : 
