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Mr. Klauber has kindly presented the National Museum with a 

 beautiful specimen from Descanso which may well serve as the 

 type of 



ENSATINA KLAUBERI, new species 



Type.— Csit. No. 75337, U.S.N.M. collected by Joe Carter, April 1, 

 1928, female adult. 



Type locality. — Descanso, San Diego County, Calif. 



Range. — San Jacinto, Laguna, and Cuyamaca Mountains, in River- 

 side and San Diego Counties, and northern Lower California. 



Diagnosis. — An Ensatina with few large light blotches or cross- 

 bands on body and tail. 



DesGription of type. — Costal grooves 12-13 ; toes overlapping when 

 appressed; head width about 5 in distance from snout to vent; head 

 length 2.7 in length of body ; head oval ; eye longer than its distance 

 from nostril; eye shorter than its distance from tip of snout; upper 

 jaw straight as seen from side; angle of jaw back of hind angle of 

 eye; both eyelids under a fold of skin behind; a groove from eye to 

 gular fold; a groove from this down behind angle of jaw; fingers 

 3, 2, 4, 1 in order of length, a tubercle at base of all except first ; two 

 tubercles on palm; toes 4, 3, 2, 5, 1 in order of length, a tubercle at 

 the base of the three middle ones; tail constricted at base, tapering, 

 swollen dorsally, longer than body; vomerine teeth 2G in series, be- 

 ginning far outside outer edge of naris, curving in and back to meet 

 its fellow, separated from parasphenoids by twice width of naris; 

 latter in two patches beginning at middle of eye socket ; black above, 

 light brownish gray below; elbow and upper arm, knee and thigh, 

 band from angle of jaw over occiput, including upper eyelid, two and 

 one-half irregular bands on body, and four on the tail, light yellow, 

 tip of tail likewise light yellow. 



Total length 127 mm., head 19.5, body 53.5, tail 54. 



Variation. — A male. Cat. No. 75229, U.S.N.M., received from Dr. 

 D wight W. Pierce and collected by Arthur Oilman at Mill Canyon, 

 near Banning, has a slightly swollen snout ; head length 3i/^ in length 

 of body ; tail as long as head and body ; two irregular bars on bod}^, 

 and irregular light sj^otting on tail; 21 vomerine teeth; total 

 length 130 mm., head 15, body 50, tail 65. A female, same data 

 (Cat. No. 75230), has the occipital band broken into two spots; 

 a single crossbar on body, and tAvo large spots on left side and one 

 on right; a crossbar in the anal region; four complete and two in- 

 complete bars on tail ; total length 95 mm., head 14, body 43, tail 38. 

 Klauber writes that the specimen he figured from near Descanso was 

 140 mm. long. He describes the color as " black, fading on the sides 

 to dusky purplish gray. The irregular series of dorsal blotches (one 

 on the head engaging the eyelids, four on the body, four on the tail) 



