The Inzards of Kansas 45 
Lawrence this lizard was collected along the Union Pa- 
cific railroad track amid coarse rock and considerable 
vegetation very close to the Kansas River. A specimen 
was driven into a rock cliff in Washington County and 
was dug out only after the removal of a considerable 
amount of rock. It had followed a small tunnel for a dis- 
tance of almost five feet. 
The breeding habits offer a good field for further 
study. Ditmars (1915) stated that ‘‘This species lays 
thin-shelled eggs." The female scrapes out a small hol- 
low in the sand, and carefully covers the eggs, leaving 
them to be hatched by the sun’s heat.’’ Wright and Funk- 
houser (1915), working in Florida, found that ‘‘The 
€ggs were deposited in irregular burrows between fur- 
rows in a plowed field. These burrows were eight to ten 
inches deep. The eggs, measuring about sixteen by ten 
millimeters in size, and deposited in sets of four or five, 
are laid in June.’’ 
Six-lined race-runners are very fond of spiders and 
many small insects, especially grasshoppers and Lepi- 
doptera. A number of snails have, also, been found in 
stomachs examined. 
Distribution in Kansas. The six-lined lizard appears 
to be distributed throughout the state and has been re- 
ported from all adjoining states. It has already been 
mentioned that C. sealineatus, Sceloporus undulatus 
thayerii, and Holbrookia maculata maculata are the only 
Species taken in certain parts of western and central 
Kansas. In the isolated outcroppings of rocks which are 
found in Washington and Republic counties, this lizard 
and Eumeces obsoletus are the only species reported, and 
they have frequently been found together. 
Leiolopisma laterale (Say). 
Ground Lizard, Brown Backed Lizard. 
