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—The prairie skink, Eumeces septentrionalis, is a small, semifossorial lizard inhahiting the tall-grass prairies and savannas of the central lowland province region of North America. This study provides an extensive bibliography and subject index as a tool lor current and future workers studying E. septentrionalis and related species. The prairie skink, Eumeces septentrionalis, is a small, semifossorial lizard (family Scincidae) inhabiting tall-grass prairies and savannas of the central lowland region of North America (Breckenridge 1941a, 1943b, Tavlor 1935, Smith and Slater 1949, Nelson 1963). Although E. septentrionalis was not formally described until 1858 (Baird), an obvious informal description was made by Schoolcraft (1834, discussed by Breckenridge 1941a, 1943b, 1981, Somma 1985a). The two subspecies of E. septentrionalis currently recognized include the northern prairie skink, E. s. septentrionalis (Baird 1858, see also Baird 1859, Taylor 1935), and the southern prairie skink, E. s. obtusirostris (Bocourt 1879, see Taylor 1935). Smith and Slater (1949) described E. s. pallidas from Texas, a subspecies not currently recognized (Collins etal. 1982, Dixon 1987). While possible intergrades between E. s. septentrionalis and E. s. obtusirostris may exist in northern Oklahoma (Webb 1970) and Woodson County, Kansas (Clarke 1956), these specimens may require further study as it has been suggested that populations of these two subspecies in Kansas are isolated (Collins 1982). Eumeces septentrionalis has received some attention in studies concerning its natural historv (Breckenridge 1941a, 1943b, Nelson 1963,'Bredin 1981, 1989 [personal communication]), physiological ecology of its eggs (Somma 1989c, unpublished data), and most recently its brooding behavior and nesting ecology (Somma 1985a, 1985c, 1987a-c, 1989a,' 1989b, McAllister 1987, Somma and Fawcett 1989). Most of these studies have dealt with the northern subspecies, as little knowledge of the biology of E. s. obtusirostris is currently available. Several authors have provided bibliographies of the prairie skink in their respective studies (Breckenridge 1941a, Nelson 1963, Somma 1985a, Cochran and Somma, in press). These literature reviews are somewhat abbreviated or lacking in completeness. The objectives of this survey are to provide an extensive bibliography and subject index to E. septentrionalis as a resource for current and future workers in saurian biology, particularly in the prairie states, and to stimulate further interest in studying the biology of E. septentrionalis. We would appreciate being informed ofany errors or omissions in our

Bibliography and subject index of the prairie skink, Eumeces septentrionalis (Baird)(Saura: Scincidae)