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mens, which were taken from under the bark of a log 
over a small stream in heavy woods in Vanderburgh 
County, Indiana.’’ Taylor (unpublished) stated that 
‘“‘They are usually found under stones around limestone 
eliffs.’’ Bishop (1926) found a Kentucky specimen un- 
der a railroad tie. 
The five-lined skink has been taken in a variety of 
Kansas habitats, but nearly always in wooded situations 
very similar to those occupied by the ground lizard, 
Leiolopisma laterale. A humid character of the surface 
soil is probably more favorable to this species than to 
any other North American member of the genus Eume- 
ces, and heavy woods, especially those with rocks and 
underbrush which are near a stream, are typical of the 
Kansas habitat of EH. fasciatus. North of Neodesha, 
Wilson County, on July 27, 1926, three recently hatched 
blue-tailed young were taken along the edge of the Ver- 
digris River among large fallen rocks from a ledge which 
rose 30 to 40 feet above. A spot near the town of Fall 
River, Greenwood County, where rocks tower 20 to 40 
feet above the Frisco right of way, also yielded three 
young specimens on the following day. The bed of the 
Fall River was on the opposite side of the railroad track, 
and the humid nature of the habitat was clearly indicated 
by a growth of mosses and ferns at the base of the rocky 
ledge. After a climb to the top of the ledge no more 
specimens of FE. fasciatus were observed, but a specimen 
of C. sexlineatus was taken. 
Northwest of New Albany (Elk County) an adult 
specimen was observed in a tree about fifteen feet from 
the ground. Another specimen was found at sunset 
playing on an old dead log in a cemetery. While collect- 
ing at Lawrence, Douglas County, a medium-sized speci- 
men was observed to run into a hollow stump about three © a 
