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slope of the southern Sierra Nevada below the range of 

 G. palmeri. It may be distinguished from its more northern 

 relative by the following synopsis of characters: — 



a. — Temporals smooth; scales on arm smooth; scales on forearm smooth or 

 weakly keeled; lateral caudals five scales behind anus smooth 6-9 

 rows from inferior mid-caudal line. G. scincicauda. 



a.' — Temporals keeled; scales on arm keeled; scales on forearm keeled; 

 lateral caudals 5 scales behind anus smooth only 4-5 rows from inferior 

 mid-caudal line. G. s. ignavus. 



3. Pituophis catenifer {Blainville). 



Pityophis sayi bellona Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 7, 1877, p. 40; 



Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 24, 1882, p. 106; Cope, 



Report, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1898 (1900), p. 876. 

 Pituophis catenifer deserticola Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 



2d ser. V. 5, 1895, p. 149. 



A young gopher snake taken on San Martin Island by Dr. 

 Streets is still in the National Museum. The Academy has 

 an adult specimen (No. 4702) collected there by Mr. Beck, 

 May 3, 1903. 



San Benito Island. 



I know of no records of reptiles from San Benito. The 

 Academy has received specimens of but one kind of lizard, 

 which is here described as new. 



1. Uta stellata sp. nov. 

 Plate VIII. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to U. stansburiana, but with dorsal scales not 

 imbricate, not mucronate, often separated by minute granules, a few of the 

 dorsal rows weakly keeled; caudals weakly keeled and very shortly 

 mucronate, not imbricate; fifth toe not reaching end of second. 



Type.— Adult male, Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 4704, San Benito Island, Lower 

 California, Mexico, R. H. Beck, May 6, 1903. 



Description.— Body and head considerably depressed; snout low, rounded 

 and rather long; nostrils large, opening upward and outward nearer to end 

 of snout than to orbit; head plates large, smooth, nearly flat, interparietal 

 largest; frontal divided transversely; 4 or 5 enlarged supraoculars, separated 

 from the frontals by i and from the frontoparietals by 2 series of granules; 

 superciliaries long, narrow and projecting; central subocular very long, 

 narrow and strongly keeled; rostral and supralabials long and low; 6 or 7 

 supralabials; symphyseal moderately small, followed by 2 or 3 pairs of 



