forest at an elevation of 120 meters; that from 21 kilometers south of
Arteaga was taken in oak forest at an elevation of 830 meters. Both
localities are on the coastal slopes of the Sierra de Coalcoman.
Probably the species inhabits the heavy forests on the lower slopes of
these mountains. The specimen from south of Arteaga (UMMZ 119117) in
life had a tan dorsum and a bright orange-pink tail.

~Eumeces altamirani~ Duges

_Eumeces altamirani_ Duges, La Naturaleza, ser. 2, 1:485,
1891.--Apatzingan, Michoacan, Mexico.

Twelve km. E of Apatzingan; El Sabino (4).

One specimen of this rare species was found beneath a rock in the open
scrub forest 12 kilometers east of Apatzingan on July 3, 1955. Another
skink, presumably of this species, was seen at Capirio. The specimen
from east of Apatzingan is a male having a snout-vent length of 97 mm.
and an incomplete tail. In most respects it compares favorably with
accounts of the species given by Taylor (1936b:55 and 1936c:102). The
frontal is divided by a transverse suture; the enlarged dorsal scales
are arranged in 11 pairs anteriorly, followed by 48 unpaired enlarged
scales. The head and middorsal area are brown; there is a pale tan
stripe on the edges of the vertebral and paravertebral rows, bordered by
a dark brown stripe on the paravertebral row, which, in turn, is
bordered by a pale tan stripe on the lateral edge of the paravertebral
scale row and the median edge of the adjacent scale row. The stripes
extend from the neck to the base of the tail. The flanks are mottled
with brown and cream-color; the labials are cream-color barred by brown;
the venter is a pale cream-color.

Duges (1891:485) described _Eumeces altamirani_ from "las regiones
calidas del Estado de Michoacan" and subsequently (1896:480) gave
Apatzingan as a locality for the species. Presumably he had only one
specimen. In 1935 Hobart M. Smith collected the species at El Sabino on
the lower slopes of the Cordillera Volcanica bordering the Tepalcatepec
Valley. All of the known specimens are from this valley and the adjacent
slopes, an area to which the species apparently is endemic.

~Eumeces colimensis~ Taylor

_Eumeces colimensis_ Taylor, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist.,
zool. ser., 20:77, May 15, 1935.--Colima, Colima, Mexico.

Coalcoman; Salitre de Estopila.

The species was reported by Peters (1954:16); no additional material has
been discovered. The species is know