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Mr. Crevecoeur collected fifteen specimens of E. sep- 
tentrionalis about his home in 1926. It is of unusual 
interest that this lizard, so rarely taken elsewhere, should 
be found in such abundance in this one locality. 
Prof. Felix Nolte of St. Benedict’s College, Atchison, 
Atchison County, Kansas, has also kindly given the 
writer information about this lizard. He wrote on April 
22, 1926, that ‘‘A specimen collected about April 17 was 
brought into a house in the western part of the city (no 
woods near), by a common house cat.’’ The specimen was 
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sent to the writer and when it was examined the teeth 
marks of the cat were still on the scales. The animal was 
alive and was kept in captivity for some time after it 
was received. On June 9, 1926, Prof. Nolte wrote an- 
other letter which explained that a second skink had been 
captured in precisely the same manner as the first. An 
examination of this specimen revealed a deep laceration 
in its back, 
The black banded skink feeds upon a large variety of 
small insects, 
