THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCIENCE BULLETIN Vol. XXXIV, Pt. II] FebruIry 15, 1952 [No. 11 Geographic Variation in the Lizard Eiimeces anthracinus BY Philip W. Smith and Hobart M. Smith Abstr.\ct: Based on a study of 187 specimens of Etimeces antliracimis the authors recognize two subspecies, anthracinus anthracinus and anthracinus pluviahs. The former is distributed chiefly in the northern Appalachian Moun-tains, the latter having a wide range in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and west of the Mississippi Ri\er from eastern Kansas and Missouri south to northern Louisiana. In 1946, one of us (H. M. Smith, 1946a, pp. 87-88) pointed out that the range of the coal skink, Eumeces anthracinus (Baird), appeared to be discontinuous, consisting of three geographically distinct populations: an eastern one extending from New York to Georgia, a second one in the Ozark Uplands, and a third in ex-treme southern Alabama and Mississippi. Attention was called to the fact that juvenal lizards from the Ozark area were known to differ in color and pattern from those in the Appalachian Moun-tains. The juvenal markings of the Alabama-Mississippi popula-tions, however, were unknown. Tentative retention of the name phiviaJis (Cope, 1880) was suggested for the southern and western populations, pending examination of the young lizards from the Alabama-Mississippi area and detailed comparison of specimens from the various portions of the known range. We have recently examined all the material readily available and find that some of the above statements require revision. Two races are involved, differing in scutellation as well as in color and pattern of the juvenal lizards. Specimens from many localities between the areas previously known to be inhabited have been taken in re-cent years, howe\er, indicating the range of the species to be more nearly continuous from New York to Kansas than indicated in the recent handbook of lizards (Smith, 1946b). Moreover, our data (679)
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