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between the interoccipital plate and the baoks of the thighs 

 is fifty in one specimen, fifty-one in three, fifty-two in one, 

 and fifty-three in one. One has the brachial scales very 

 weakly keeled. They were collected by Dr. Gustav Eisen 

 in June, 1897. 



Santa Cruz Island. 



A Hyla and two species of lizards have heretofore been 

 recorded as inhabiting Santa Cruz Island. Another lizard is 

 here reported for the first time. 



1. Hyla regilla Baird & Girard. 



Hyla regilla Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 24, 1882, p. 171; Cope, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 34, 1889, p. 360. 



Yarrow and Cope record this species as having been col- 

 lected on Santa Cruz Island by Mr. H. W. Henshaw in June, 

 1875, but another portion of the same lot of specimens (U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. No. 8686) is stated to be from Santa Cruz, Cali- 

 fornia. Mr. Henshaw tells me he never has collected in 

 Santa Cruz County, and that these specimens unquestionably 

 came from Santa Cruz Island where he collected in the 

 summer of 1875. 



2. Uta stansburiana Baird & Girard. 



Uta stansburiana Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 24, 1882, p. 56; Town- 

 send, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. 13, 1890, p. 144; Van Denburgh, 

 Occas. Papers, Cal. Acad. Sci. 5, 1897, p. 68; Cope, Report, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 1898 (1900), p. 310. 



The register of the United States National Museum states 

 that two specimens of this lizard (No. 8619) were collected 

 by Dr. O. Loew, on Santa Cruz Island in June, 1875. These 

 lizards are still in the National collection and are of consider- 

 able interest since they, and two from Ana Capa Island, are 

 the only ones I have seen which approach the San Benito 

 Island Uta (described below) in the character of their dorsal 

 lepidosis. That these specimens actually were collected by 

 Dr. Loew on Santa Cruz Island is, I think, open to little 

 doubt, since he, with Mr. H. W. Henshaw and Dr. J. T. 

 Rothrock, visited this island in June, 1875.' 



1 See Report, Chief of Engineers, U. S. A. 1876, pt. 3, pp. 435, 445, etc. 



