304 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



anterior surfaces of the limbs are large and weakly keeled. The ventral plates are 

 larger than the caudals. The color above is dull grayish olive, with four distinct 

 anterior and three fainter posterior transverse black bands. The tail is similarly 

 barred with dusky. The throat is brownish, marked with blackish centrally. The 

 chest and abdomen are white, clouded with slate. 



Meast(7-ement8. 



Uta thalassina. 



Snout to vent 



Snout to fold 



Snout to orbit 



Snout t o ear 



Snout to back of interparietal... 



Width of head 



Fore limb 



Hind limb 



Base of fifth to end of fourth toe 



This species is represeuted by a single specimen. Its general aspect 

 is very much like U. thalassina; not at all like U. mearnsii. 



Type. — No. 633, California Academy of Sciences; Comondu, Lower 

 California; W. E. Bryant, April, 1889. 



Fig. 37. 



Uta MEARNsn Stejneger. 



Southern California. 



- Cat. No. 218HS, U.S.N.M. 



UTA MEARNSII Stejneger. 

 Uta mearnsii Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, 1894, pp. 589-591. 



