52 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis 
oa 
bryos with five whitish longitudinal lines on body at 
least two weeks before time of hatching; newly hatched 
young with brilliant blue or purplish blue tails; body 
dark in color; all lines distinct; median line bifurcating 
on head; as young develop the dorsal surface becomes 
grayish, and undergoes a differential coloration, each 
scale having a perceptibility lighter area in its center 
which is continuous with a lighter emargination of the 
posterior border, the anterior and lateral borders 
Wallace | Logan | Gere Trego Ellis 
: nents 
Greeley | Wichita | Soo | Lane Neos Rosh Berto 7 a Sets 
Rice McPhersca Marion Recess 
Pawnee . Cotes BEY tine 
Piso Hodgeman bir. ot 
Tsmitsyy | Kearney eee Paes SS Harvey ~, 
NaI er men Ease 
| Miserts FO Greeaweoa | Wootson | Alten 
Stanton | Grant ra | Kiowa Kingman p—————1_ witsen | Necsbo 
i — ik — 
wr | oo gewera | MO4* | Cork | nosche| Barber E | Sumner Cowley bau 
Fig. 10. Distribution of E. anthracinus in Kansas as indicated by the 
county reports. 
darker; sides remaining dark between and below the two 
lateral stripes; adults becoming lighter above and then 
later laterally; all stripes tend to become obsolete with 
age in both sexes, the center stripe disappearing before 
the lateral stripes; cheeks of adults red, or brownish red, 
in color; all stages white under head, and also in gular 
region; under surface of legs often light; other ventral 
parts dark, usually slate colored. 
Data upon 93 Kansas specimens of this species fol- 
low: Length of body, 22-90 (61-70); length of tail, 22- 
