124- OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Family : Anguidae. 



Ophisaurus ventralis Linn. Olive-green or brown, yellowish below. 

 Legs -wanting, body snake-like. Tongue not cleft as in snakes. Preanal 

 scales generally eight (8) in nupiber. A conspicuous fold along sides. Tail 

 very brittle. Length 2 feet. 



The Glass-snake derives its name from the readiness with 

 which the tail breaks in pieces. This is due to the fact that the 

 vertebrae in the tail are bony only at their ends, the centres 

 remaining unossified and hence are readily separable. Although 

 a snake in appearance, it is yet a lizard without legs. It may be 

 told at once from any other Ohio reptile by its snake-like appear- 

 ance and its non-forked tongue. 



It is included here on the strength of a single specimen taken 

 on the University farm by Dr. Townshend and is at present in the 

 O. S. U. Zool. Mus. It was killed in a hay field, having been 

 shaken out of a stack of hay. That it is valid is certain and it is 

 but a few hundred miles out of its usual range. Hay ('92, p. 

 542) gives it as occurring in northern Indiana. 



In the O. S. U. Mus., collected by Dr. Townshend at Columbus. 



Family : Teidae. 



*Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (L.). Brownish above, with six dorsal 

 streaks. A silvery spot on throat. A median dorsal band of brown. Tongue 

 bifid, snake-like. A double fold across neck. Length 6-7 inches. 



This is a very common form within its range, which is, in 

 the main, southerly and westerly. It occurs from New Jersey to- 

 the mountains in the West. It has no Ohio record. 



Family : SciNClDAE. 



*Liolepisma laterals Say. Head angular, pyramid-shaped, with apex 

 directed forward. Above reddish-olive to bronze or greenish. A light line 

 on sides, below which, on level of eye runs a second darker line, while below 

 the two, a white line. Ventro-laterally, striped alternately light and dark. 

 Under parts yellowish. Tail blue below. Length 5 inches. 



This is a Southern form, straggling^ north to Indiana. Its 

 status as an Ohio lizard is not without question. Smith ('82) 

 states that he has not seen it from the State. Kirtland ('38) 

 speaks of it in a note as follows : " S. lateralis was shown to me 

 by Mr. Dorfeuille, as an inhabitant of Ohio." Dorfeuille was a 



