By HOBART M. SMITH A number of noteworthy items have come to attention in the course of a survey of material for a handbook on the herpetology of Kansas. Some of the items, which follow, can be recorded here more appropriately than in the handbook. Eumeces anthracinus pluvialis Cope Recent material in addition to information presented in Taylor's monograph of Eumeces (Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 23, 1935) reveals that Eumeces anthracinus is composed of three geographically distinct populations: One