586 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS TESSELLATUS MULTISCUTATUS Cope. 



Cnemidopliorns tessellaius mitltiscutatus Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1892, p. 38. 

 Cnemidophorus tessellatus tigris Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, XII, p. 147; not 

 of Baird and Girard. 



Eepresented in the United States National Museum by four speci- 

 mens of medium size. The muzzle is rather acute, and moderately 

 elongate. The anterior gulars are rather larger than the posterior, and 

 are not abruptly contrasted with the posterior, as is the case in the 

 C. t. rubidus, but they graduate into them. The extended hind leg 

 reaches to the orbit. In two larger specimens there are six plates of 



Fig. 111. 



Cnemidophorus tessellatcs multiscutatus Cope. 



= 1. 



Lower California. 



Cat. No. 16160, U.S.N.M. 



the iiifralabial row, and in two smaller but five. Four large anals, two 

 on the middle line in front of the marginal pair. These four are sur- 

 rounded by a series of smaller plates as far as the vent. Scales of the 

 t^ul with the keels slightly oblique throughout. The i)eculiarity of the 

 subspecies is seen in the large number of rows of brachial scales (7-8 

 rows), and femoral scales (8-9 rows). The former are not quite con- 

 stant, however, one of the smaller specimens having but six rows. 

 Femoral pores 20-22. The scales are smaller than is usual in G. tessel- 

 laius, measuring 0.33 mm. and 0.25 mm. in diameter. 

 The color is generally of the C. tesseUatus tessellatus type, but the 



