J. Rodgers - 1942 Eumeces skiltonianus July 8 (cont.) Mus. Vert. Zool., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, Alameda C., Calif. females, and kept in captivity for further study (Dyke also mentioned on p. 15). Two terraria, one 12" x 24" and the other 10" x 16" were divided, each into two compartments, by sheets of glass. They were filled about two inches of sand was put on their floors, about an inch of loam on top of that and about an inch of heavier sod on top of that. The grass on the sod was cut to about 1/2" long. A hollow about 1" deep was made in some part of each, and this covered by a slab of pine bark 2-3" wide and 4"-6" long and about 1/2" thick. All four skinks chose these places for hiding for the first few weeks. Each compartment was equipped with a small water dish, sunk in the ground. Early in June they began to dig down deeper. Each day as I looked to see if eggs had been laid, I would find one or two of them missing from the hollow they had fined and would have to dig deep to find it. One of them especially (3113) insisted in digging down deep (from the start I have thrown meal worms into the terraria a several times skinks have been seen to eat them). Another one also showed particular interest in digging down deep but I lost track of which unit was before I rearranged the terraria. It became obvious that if I was to