Legless. Bronze-colored with dark, lateral stripes and lateral groove. Middorsal stripe. External ear openings. Eyelids. Tail as easy to break as glass. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 125 records from 26 sources: 106 museum (
), 1 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 8 observation (
), with 10 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 36 of 75 counties (), with 2 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1897 to present.
This uncommon species has a spotty distribution in the state, with some of the large range gaps likely an artifact of detection difficulties. Records are largely absent from the mountainous regions of the Interior Highlands, portions of the South Central Plains, and, with the exception of a few scattered records from the Grand Prairie region, the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
