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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



denticulatious, the belly scales decidedly notched. Scales in inside of 

 femur and behind anus smooth. There are about forty-one oblique 

 series from head to above anus; about thirty from the lateral cervical 

 folds. 



General color above, yellowish olive, with two well-defined narrow 

 lines separated by about eight scales, and a broad median dorsal stripe 

 of the ground color. Between each lateral and the dorsal stripe is a 

 series of well-marked oblique short lines about two scales wide. A 



Fig. 60. 



SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS CONSOBRI.VCS BAIRD AND GiRARD. 

 = 1. 



Cat. No. 166!i5, U.S.N. M. 



dusky lateral stripe, with a yellowish one below it; a short horizcHital 

 line on tbe shoulder ; beneath yellowish ; tail without bands ; sometimes 

 a row of dusky blotches above. Male with two confluent bluish spots 

 on each side tbe chin. Side of belly bluish ; cephalic plates somewhat 

 as in ;S'. thayeri. 



The prevailing color of this species is an olivaceous yellow, seldom 

 greenish. On each side are two unusually well-defined stripes of clear 

 yellow, the upper especially, which begins a little above the lateral 



