374 SCINCIDE. 
10. Eumeces obsoletus. 
Plestiodon obsoletum, Baird & Gir. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1852, p. 129; 
Hallow. in Sitgreave’s Exped. Zuni and Color. Riv. p. 111; Baird, 
U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Rept, pl. xxv. figs. 9-16. 
Eumeces obsoletus, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept, p. 45; Bocourt, 
Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 443, pl. xxii. a. fig. 4, and pl. xxii. D. 
fig. 4; Cope, Buil. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 17, 1880, p. 39. 
Snout short, obtuse. Nasal small; postnasal present or absent; 
supranasals sometimes in contact with the preefrontals ; five supra- 
oculars, the two or three anterior in contact with the frontal; 
parietals entirely separated by the interparietal ; one or two pairs of 
nuchals ; seventh upper labial largest ; ear-opening nearly as large 
as adorsal scale, without distinct lobules ; two azygos postmentals. 
28 scales round the body, the laterals smaller than the others. When 
pressed against the body the limbs meet or fail to meet; the length 
of the hind limb enters thrice to thrice and one third in the length 
from snout to vent. A series of transversely enlarged subcaudals. 
Pale olive above, all or part of the scales edged with dark brown, 
sometimes. with rather indistinct longitudinal dark bands; lower 
surfaces greenish white. 
millim. millim, 
Total length ...... 220 Fore limb ........ 27 
THC 8 di a ioe wlhei ois 22 Hind limb........ 37 
Width of head .... 17 US) eee meeremerrenen are 105 
Body ‘sis nea sauces 93 
Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, North 
Mexico. 
a-b. Ad. & her. Duval County, Texas. W. Taylor, Esq. [C.]. 
ce, Ad. Kansas. 
d, Ad. —P 
11. Eumeces septentrionalis. 
Plestiodon septentrionalis, Baird, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1858, p. 256, 
one Rep. U. 8. Explor, Surv, R. R. x. pt.iv. 1859, p. 18, pl. xxiv. 
g. 2. 
Eumeces septentrionalis, Cope, Check-list N. Am. Rept. p. 44, and 
Bull. U. 8, Nat. Mus. no. 17, 1880, p. 89. 
Apparently closely related to £. obsoletus. Supranasals in contact 
with the prefrontals; no postnasal. The limbs do not meet when 
pressed against the body. Subcaudal scales not enlarged. Olive 
above, with four equidistant and equal dark stripes; two narrow 
white lines on each side, traversing the centre of single rows of scales, 
and margined above and below by black; upper lateral light lines 
separated by six rows of scales ; beneath light greenish. 
Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas. 
