THE UNIVEBSITY OF KANSAS SCIENCE BULLETIN Vol. XIX] November, 1929 . [No. 7 'A Species of Lizard New to the Fauna of the United States: Eumeces caUicephalus Bocourt EDWARD H. TAYLOR Department of ZiMJloKy, University of Kansas WHILE collecting with Albert Lunceford, Jr., in the Hiiachuca mountains of southern Arizona between July 1 and July 10, 1928, 1 obtained four specimens of a small skink which differed from the species known from the United States. At first I concluded that it was a new species but later study has proved it identical with the Mexican form, Eumeces caUicephalus Bocourt." The specimens were obtained in Ash canyon at an elevation of ap-proximately 6,000 feet. Three were captured under small stones, and a fourth was discovered running about over the stones in the small stream that trickles in the bottom of the canyon. We found no other species of skinks in the Huachucas although Eumeces obsoletus (Baird and Girard) has been reported by other collectors from the immediate locality of Ash canyon. Through the courtesy of Mr. Joseph Slevin, of the California Academy of Sciences, I was permitted to examine the skinks which he collected in the Huachuca mountains. I found in this material two specimens of this species. By permission of Mr. Slevin I am in-cluding data on these two specimens in this paper. Since the type description of Eumeces caUicephalus is not gen-erally availablef and no description appears in any American work on herpetology, I append a color description of the form, and a table showing variation in the principal characters. The color of the back is brownish gray showing less brown pos-teriorly; anteriorly this color covers 6 scale rows and 8 posteriorly. * I am under obligation to Dr. Alexander Ruthven of the University, of Michigan for a c^nfirmaticn of this identification. t Bocourt, Mission Sci. Mexique: Rei.t.. p. 431, pi. XXU, D, fig. 2, and pi. XXII, E, fig. 2. (67)
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