CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



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VERTICARIA Cope. 

 Verticaria Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 18fi9, p. 158. 



Scaly portion of tongue cordate behind, not retractile. Tail rounded. 

 Teeth compressed in the line of the jaws. Head shields large, regu- 

 lar; ventrals large: frontoparietal plates fused together; su])erciliaries 

 segmental. A collar fold. Femoral pores present in a rosette of 

 scales. 



This genus only differs from Cnemidophorns in the confluent fronto- 

 paiietal scuta. Four species are known; the Y. heterolepis Tschudi, 

 from the Pacific region of Peru; the T". heclracantha Bocourt, from 

 Mexico; and the V. hyperytlira Cope, and Y. scricea Van Denburgh, 

 from Lower California. The last-named species are defined as follows: 



Small ; brachial plates unmerous, large, continuous with antebrachials. Collar 

 margined with large scales; l)ody scales minute; four supraorbitals. Olive, sides 

 black, with two yellow stripes; two dorsal stripes; belly red V. hyperijthra. 



Larger; collar margined Avith small scales; hind leg longer; five light stripes; belly 

 blue F. sericea. 



VERTICARIA HYPERYTHRA Cope. 



Verticaria hyperytlira Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1869, p. 158; Bull. U.S. Nat. 



Mus.,No.32, 1887, p.45. 

 Cnemidophorus Jiyperythriis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, p. 103. — 



BouLENGER, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1885, II, p. 371. 



Fig. ]02. 

 Verticaria hypekythra Copb. 



Xf. 

 Cerros Island, Lower California. 



Cat. No. 11980, U.S.N. M. 



External nares in the nasal plate. Brachium Avith four series of 

 plates, three om the antebrachium, the superior largest. Head rather 

 narrow, muzzle long. Hind foot two-fifths the length of the head and 

 body. Three rows of scales on the gular fold, the anterior row median, 



