The Lizards of Kansas 73 
Table of Kansas Lizards. 
Number of Speci- 
Species mensinCollec- Per Cent 
tions Examined of Total 
Crotaphytus collaris 400 22.52 
Eumeces obsoletus 280 15.73 
Holbrookia maculata maculata__- 215 12.07 
Sceloporus undulatus thayerii_-- 190 10.67 
Cnemidophorus sexlineatus -__-- 185 10.39 
Phrynosoma cornutum __------- 145 8.14 
Eumeces fasciatus 120 6.74 
Ophisaurus ventralis 80 4,49 
Leiolopisma laterale 55 3.09 
Eumeces septentrionalis -------- 42 2.35 
Phrynosoma douglassii ornatisst- 
mum 40 2.24 
Ewmeces anthracinus 18 1.01 
Sceloporus undulatus undulatus_- 7 0.39 
Eumeces multivirgatus (See p. 57) 3 0.17 
Total 1700 100.00 
The five lizards at the top of the list are certainly very 
abundant where they occur in Kansas. The eighth, 
Ophisauris ventralis, is not, however, abundant in the 
Same sense, and more than a few specimens of this lizard 
are seldom taken at once. Yet, because of its widespread 
distribution in eastern Kansas and its occurrence near 
both the Kansas State Agricultural College and Kansas 
University where much of the collecting of Kansas 
lizards has been done, it is represented in Kansas muse- 
ums in fairly large numbers. Leiolopisma laterale has not 
yet been found to be abundant in Kansas, with the ex- 
ception of Franklin County, and usually only one or two 
Specimens are taken at a place. On the other hand, the 
much rarer species, Eumeces septentrionalis, has been 
