364 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



SCELOPORUS SPINOSUS Wiegmann. 



Sceloporiis sjnnosits Wiegmann, Isis, 1828, p. 369; Herjit. Mex., Pt. 1, 1834, p. 50, 



pi. VII, (ig. 3.— FiTZiNGER, Syst. Kept., 1843, p. 75.— Baird, U. S. Mex. Bound. 



Surv. Kept., 18r)9, ]>. 5, pi. xxix, figs. 4-6. — BocouuT, Miss. Sx'. Mex., Rept. 



1874, p. 174, pi. xviii, fig. 2.— Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XXII, 1885, p. 395.— 



BouLENGKH, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mns., II, 1885, p. 226. 

 Tropidolepis spinosm Gray, >Syn. Rept. Gritt'. An. King., IX, 1831, p. 43. — Dum1^;ril 



and BiBRON, Erp. G(^n., IV, 1837, p. 304.— Gray, Cat. Spec. Li/,., 1845, p. 209.— 



Aug. Dumeril, Cat. Coll. Rept., 1851, p. 77. 

 Tropidurus spinosus Wagler, Syst. Aniph., 1830, p. 146. 

 Sceloporm floridanus Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1858, p. 254. — Ste.ineger, 



North Aiuericau Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 181. 



Ki« r.5, 



SCELOPOUUS SI'INOSUS WiEOMANN. 

 X 3. 



Texas, 



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



One series of four or five, sometimes six, large transverse supraorbitals, 

 with occasionally two or three smaller external ones, bordered internally | 

 and externally by a row of small ones, the former completely continuous, 

 occasionally a few smaller plates. Cephalic plates large, with two single ' 

 verticals, scales on bade very large, and bristling, acutely pointed; 

 strongly car in ated, with a i)roininent spine, but the two or three lateral 



