J.Rodgers -1942 Eumeces skiltonianus Aug.18 Mrs.Vert.zool.,Univ.Calif.,Berkeley Alameda Co.,Calif. with her five or six. She is with it every morning when I look, and returns to it within an hour(?); unusually at least not within one half hour, and often see back with egg several hours later. Nest No.3.I 16.1 x 9.6 mm. The soil in this nest appears II 14.8 x 9.8 mm. to be of about the same III 15.5 x 9.7 mm. moistness (dryness) as that IV 14.1 x 9.2 mm. in the nests found in the V 15.1 x 9.2 mm. field. VI 16.0 x 9.7 mm. Aug.19 The eggs of nest No.1 are dirty, and the soil damp, again. Two more of the eggs look somewhat shrunken and all three that appear to be spoiling look pinkish. I took them out and washed them put in drier soil, then returned them. Aug.20 Two of the eggs in nest No.1 are growing mold. The shink was not with the egg, but under the soil near them. I washed eggs no.I in nest No.3 to see if the shink would abandon it. Aug.22 Eggs of nest No.1 are all spoiled; female seems to have no interest in eggs. Female no.3114, of nest No.3, has not disregarded egg no.I that was washed yesterday. That, of course does not prove that female no.3113, of nest no.1, did not abandon her eggs because they were all washed Aug.18. She abandons