PROCEBDINQS 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Third Series 

 Zoology Vol. IV, No. 2 



Issued December 2, igo^ 



THE SPECIES OF THE REPTILIAN GENUS ANNIELLA, 



WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO ANNIELLA 



TEXANA AND TO VARIATION IN 



ANNIELLA NIGRA 



BY JOHN VAN DENBURGH 

 Curator of the Department of Herpetology 



The genus Anniella was established by J, E. Gray\ in 

 1852, to contain a single species which he named Anniella 

 pulchra and described in the following terms : 



" Silvery (in spirits) ; upper part v "th very narrow brown 

 zigzag lines placed on the margin of the series of scales, the 

 line down the center of the back and two or three on the 

 upper part of the sides being thicker and nearly half the 

 width of the scales. 



"■ Hab. California,/. O. Goodridge, Esq., Surgeon R. N.'' 



This species has since been more completely described by 

 Bocourt,^ Boulenger,^ Cope,* and Van Denburgh.* 



1 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. v. 10, 1852, p. 4.10. 



2 Miss. Sci. au Mex. Recherches zool. 3d pt. p. 460. 



3 Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. v. 2, 1885, p. 299. 



■* Report, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1898 (1900), p. 674. 

 S Occas. Papers, Cal. Acad. Sci. 5, 1897, p. 116. 



November 29, 1905. 



