684 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



fore leg-, 27 mm. ; length of fore foot, 13.5 mm. ; length of bind leg, 60 

 mm.; length of liiiul foot, 32 mm. 



A form very much like this subspecies has been named C. martyris 

 by Stejneger.^ The two known specimens differ from the C. t. melano- 

 stethtts in their smaller size and in the extension of the black over the 

 entire inferior surface. It is doubtful whether it can be regarded as a 

 subspecies. It is from the island of San Martir, Gulf of California. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS TESSELLATUS RUBIDUS Cope. 



Cnemidophorns tesscllatus ritbidus Copk, Trans. Ainer. Phil. Soc, 1892, p. 36, pi. xii, 

 fig.F. 



Fig. 110. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS TESSELLATUS RUBIDUS CoPK. 

 = 1. 



Lower California. 



Cat. No. 15153, U.S.N.M. 



This elegant form is represented in the national collection by seven 

 individuals, of which three are adult. To the usual characters of the 

 species it adds some others. Thus the scales are rather finer, being 

 less than 0.5 mm. in diameter. The femoral scales are more numerous. 

 Femoral pores twenty- two. Small scales of collar border not granular. 



There are three parietals, and the longest toe reaches the auricular 

 meatus. There are the usual three anals, with one in front of the 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1890, p. 407. 



