. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. November, 1961 Smith: Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois. Fig. 155.—An adult female Eumeces fasciatus from Monroe County, Illinois. Young speci- mens are black with narrow yellowish white lines and brilliant blue tails; subadult males and adult females are dark brown with light gray stripes. Adult males are bronzy brown with little trace of the striped pattern and have conspicuously reddened jowls. Eumeces fasciatus (Linnaeus) Five-Lined Skink Laccrta fasciata Linnaeus 1758:209 (type lo- cality: Carolina; revised to Charleston, South Carolina, by
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. November, 1961 Smith: Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois. Fig. 155.—An adult female Eumeces fasciatus from Monroe County, Illinois. Young speci- mens are black with narrow yellowish white lines and brilliant blue tails; subadult males and adult females are dark brown with light gray stripes. Adult males are bronzy brown with little trace of the striped pattern and have conspicuously reddened jowls. Eumeces fasciatus (Linnaeus) Five-Lined Skink Laccrta fasciata Linnaeus 1758:209 (type lo- cality: Carolina; revised to Charleston, South Carolina, by Schmidt 1953). Plcstiodon fasciatum, Kennicott 1855:591. Eumeces fasciatus, Schneck 1880^:55. Plestiodon qtiinquelineatiim, Kennicott 1855: 591. Eumeces quinquelineatus, Cope 1900:639-40 (?part). Eumeces sp., Mertens 1951:15. Diagnosis.—A small to medium-sized liz- ard (largest Illinois specimen 190 mm. in total length), fig. 155, with 26 to 30 smooth, subequal scales around the mid-body; 50 to 54 dorsal scales between the occiput and a point above the hind legs; frontal scale rec- tangular; pattern of 5 longitudinal light stripes on dark background, except in sexu- ally mature males, which are tan, gray, or bronze, with red jowls; juveniles and sub- adults with blue tails; two postmental scales and a postnasal scale on each side of head; usually 7 -f 7 supralabials; 2 subequal post- labials, fig. 146. Key characters of this species and a similar species, Eumeces lati- ceps, are graphed in fig. 156. Variation.—The adult male in this spe- cies is almost unicolorous above, with red or coppery color on the swollen jowls; the adult female retains the striped juvenile pattern, although the lines are often dim. The base of the tail and the temporal region are con- spicuously larger in the male. Newly hatched skinks are shiny black, with distinct light stripes and a brilliant blue tail, which is proportionately shorter than in adults. The subadult loses the blue color of the tai
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