CROCODILTANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



573 



II. Brachial scales in 5-6 rows ; femorals 8-9 rows. 



No stripes; ground color dove brown, with three rows of more or less obsolete 

 black spots on the back and vertical black bars on the sides; abdominal 

 plates pale, black edged; hands and inferior faces of hind legs and tail red; 

 larger C. t. ruiidus. 



III. Brachial scales 7-8 rows; femorals in 8-9 rows. 



Four light stripes above, interrupted and connected with light spots and lines 

 in the black interspaces ; sides, throat and inferior surfaces variegated black 

 and white ; medium C. t. multiscutatus. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS TESSELLATUS PERPLEXUS Baird and Girard. 



Cnemidophorus perplexus Baird and Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852, 

 p. 128.— Cope, Check List Batr. Rept N. Amer., 1875, p. 46. 



Fig. 105. 



Cnemidophorus tkssellatus perplexus Baiku and Gikaro. 



=1. 



Texas. 



Cat. No. 30BO, U.S.N.M. 



Ill tlie type specimen of this subspecies the interparietal plate is nar- 

 rower than the parietals, and is twice as long- as wide. The frenal is 



