NOTES ON AMPHIBIA AND LACERTILIA 
COLLECTED AT WEYMOUTH, N. J. 
From the i6th to the 28th of June, 1928, the writer 
and Mrs. Klots collected at Weymouth, N. J., located 
about midway between May's Landing and Hammon- 
ton, in Atlantic County. Most of our attention was 
devoted to insect collecting, but considerable time was 
spent on Reptiles and Amphibia. The following cap- 
tures and observations seem worthy of being recorded. 
Leiolopisma laterale. Three specimens were taken, 
all within a radius of a half mile from camp. The 
first was under a brush heap in dry pine woods at 
eleven o'clock in the morning of a hot day. The 
second was under a heap of damp drift material on 
the bank of a creek, about noon. The third was under 
a log in pine woods, after a heavy rainstorm. It is 
probable that the paucity of records for this species 
from southern New Jersey is due more to its incon- 
spicuousness and retiring habits than to its extreme 
rarity. Its slow movements (compared with the other 
Lizards found) and appearance were rather suggestive 
of the Salamander Eurycea bislineata. 
Eumeces fasciatus. Six specimens in all were taken, 
all under the loose bark of standing pine stubs. The 
largest, measuring about i5o mm., was of the adult, 
red-headed phase. The others were all smaller and of 
the immature blue-tailed coloring. A female, measur- 
ing approximately 140 mm. and typical of the blue- 
tailed phase, deposited two eggs on July 23d in the 
can in which it was being kept. The lizard and the 
eggs were immediately transferred to a cage with a 
layer of sand on the bottom and above that a layer 
of damp sphagnum. The lizard promptly buried the 
eggs about two inches deep in the sand and took up 
its station above them. Twice the eggs were dug up, 
and each time the lizard buried them again. At night 
it burrows down to the eggs and appears to coil around 
them. In spite of this evident care for the eggs the 
lizard makes no attempt at their defense when they 
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