270 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



backward. Female without blue on belly, tlie black of sides very 

 faintly indicated; the sides with a series of indistinct close blotches 

 extending on sides of tail. 



Fig. 24. 



Callisaurus draconoides dbaoonoides Blainville. 



Cape Sau Lucas, Lower California. 



Cat. No. 5300, U.S.N. M. 



Another variety is darker above, varied with red, and with few or no 

 light spots on the back, which has, besides, two distinct series of dorsal 

 blotches from head to tail. 



The head is much depressed, nearly as broad as long; the muzzle 

 wide and rounded. The width is equal to distance from snout to end 

 of large occipital plate. The labials and rostrals form a projecting 

 horizontal shelf; the series distinctly visible from above. They are 



