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RHINOCHEILUS ANTONII CLARUS Klauber 



Rhinocheilus lecontei clarus Klaubeb, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 



1941, pp. 308-314, pi. 13, figs. 1, 2, map p. 330. 

 Rhinocheilus antonii clarus Smith, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 28, 1942, pp. 201-203. 



Type.—L. M. Klauber Coll. (San Diego, Calif.) No. 31440. 



Type locality. — Borego Valley, 2 miles north of The Narrows, San 

 Diego County, Calif. 



Range. — "The Borego and Coachella valleys in southern California, 

 with scattered occurrences elsewhere in the Colorado, Mohave, and 

 Yuma deserts of southern California, extreme southern Nevada, and 

 western Arizona." Also presumably in extreme northern Sonora, 

 perhaps also in extreme northern Baja California. Intergrades with 

 R. a. antonii in northern Sonora. 



RHINOCHEILUS LECONTEI LECONTEI Baird and Girard 



Rhinocheilus lecontei Baird and Girard, Catalogue of North American reptiles, 

 1853, pp. 120-121.— Van Denbuegh, Occ. Pap. California Acad, Sci., vol. 10, 

 1922, pp. 774-777, pi. 84. 



Rhinocheilus lecontei, lecontei Klauber, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat Hist., vol. 

 9, 1941, pp. 296-302, pi. 12, fig. 1, map p. 330. 



Type.— Originally Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 137. 



Type locality. — San Diego, Calif. 



Range. — "California from Mendocino and Lassen counties south; 

 northern Lower California, southwestern Idaho, Nevada, south- 

 western Utah, southern and western Arizona." 



RHINOCHEILUS LECONTEI TESSELLATUS Garman 



Rhinocheilus lecontei tessellatus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 8, 1883, 

 pp. 74, 159. — KxAUBEK, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1941, pp. 

 302-308, pi. 12, fig. 2, pi. 13, fig. 3. 



Type.— Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 4577. 



Type locality. — Monclova, Coahuila. 



Range. — "Central and southern New Mexico, southwestern Kansas, 

 western Oklahoma, Texas west of the 97th [meridian] , Coahuila and 

 northern Nuevo Leon. Probably intergrades with lecontei along the 

 southern border between New Mexico and Arizona" (recorded in 

 Mexico only from Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, although its occurrence 

 in Tamaulipas and Chihuahua is to be expected). 



Genus SALVADORA Baird and Girard 



Salvadora Baied and Girard, Catalogue of North American reptiles, 1853, pp. 

 104-105.— SMn-H, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol 99, No. 20, 1941, pp. 1-12, 

 figs. 1-7. 



Phimothyra Cope, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 12, 18G0, p. 5GG (sub- 

 stitute name for Salvadora [a Linnaeau plant name] ; type, S. grahamiae 

 Baird and Girard). 



Genotype. — Salvadora grahamiae Baird and Girard. 



