CROCODILTANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 

 Uta ornata Baird and Girard. 



317 



Catalogue 

 No. 



2750 



8156 

 8476 

 8527 

 8528 

 8557 

 9376 

 8181 

 8556 



2763 



8641 

 8667 



8668 

 8665 

 8666 

 9479 

 12665 

 4275 



15841 

 14786 

 15693 



Number 



of speci- 



nienss. 



Locality. 



Sau Pedro . 



Arizona 



Sau Carlos, Arizona 



do 



Gila Kiver, Ariz ona 



Southern Arizona 



Fort Yuma, California- . 



Utah 



Col. Cbiquita, New 



Mexico. 

 Colorado River, Colorado 



Arizona ? 



When col- 

 lected. 



From whom received. 



— , 1871 



Oct. 7, 1874 

 Oct. 17,1874 

 Oct. —,1874 

 Oct. —,1873 



Nevada 



Virgin River to Fort 

 Mohave, Arizona. 



Southern California 



do 



Mohave Desert, Arizona . 



Ralston, Arizona 



La Paz, L. California 



San Francisco Moun- 

 tain, Arizona. 



do 



Plateau Creek, Colorado 



Prescott, Arizona 



, 1872 



July 21,1873 



, 1872 



Aug. — , 1875 



, 1875 



, 1875 



July —,1875 



■ , 1874 



, 1882 



Col. J. D. Graham, 

 U. S. A. 



F.Bischofif 



H. W. Henshaw 



J. H. Rutter 



Dr. f ). Loew 



H.W. Henshaw .... 



Expl. W. of 100th M. 

 H.W. Henshaw 



Nature of spec- 

 imen. 



Lieut. J. C. Ives, TJ. 



S. A. 

 Dr. B. J. D. Irwin, U. 



S.A. 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow 



William Somers 



J. A. Has.son 



do 



Dr. O. Loew 



Dr. C. G. Newberrv- 



L. Belding '.. 



Lieut. Ives 



Dr. C. H. Merriam 



T. D. A. Coekerell .... 

 Capt. W. L. Carpenter 



Alcoholic type. 



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A single specimeu obtained in middle Utah in 1872. In 1873 and 

 1871 the species was fonnd to be quite numerous in Colorado, Arizona, 

 and New Mexico, frequenting rocky places and exceedingly hard to 

 catch. Color of throat, yellowish orange; of abdomen, white, ranging 

 to greenish olive. The general coloration depends much upon the color 

 of the rock upon which they are found. 



UTA SYMMETRICA Baird. 



Uta mjmmctrUa Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 253.— CorES, 

 Wheeler's Report Smv. W. 100th Mer., V, 1875, p. 597.— Boulenger, Cat. 

 Liz. Brit. Mas., 2tl ed., 1885, p. 213.— Stejxegek, North American Fauna, 

 No. 3, 1890, p. 108. 



Head broad, short, depressed. Two regular series of large dorsal 

 scales on each side the back, with two others much smaller between 

 them along the median line. Tail about one and a half or one and 

 three-fourths times the length of head and body. 



.Vbove dark or light brownish gray. Sides with broad transverse 

 bands of blackish, sometimes bifurcating above. Sides of neck with a 

 more distinct and linear band. Sides of belly in male blue, spotted 

 with white. 



Stejneger remarks^ that this species differs from the U. ornata in 

 the greater length of its legs, as well as in scale characters. Thus 

 he says in the U. ornata the hind leg is shorter than the distance 

 betsveen the vent and the collar, while in the U. symmetrica this length 

 is equal to or greater than that dimension. In four specimens of TTtas 



1 North American Fauna, No. 3, 1890, p. 108. 



