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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



side, the first pair iu contact throughout. Dorsal scales coarse, round, 

 projecting upward at their posterior border. Brachial scales iu six 

 rows, antebrachial in three. Femorals in eight rows, tibials iu three. 

 Femoral pores, lC-18. Aual plates only three, separated from vent by 

 a wide granular space, and surrounded anteriorly and laterally by one 

 row of small flat scales. Legs rather short, hind foot reaching to half 

 way between humerus and auricular meatus. 



Measurements. — Size above medium for the genus. Length of head 



Fig. 115. 



CNEMmOPHORUS SEPTEMVITTATUS COPE. 

 = 1. 



California. 



Cat. No. iSIS, U.S.N. !\l. 



and body to vent (tail injured), 110 mm.; length of head to angle of 

 mandible, 2G mm.; length to collar, 32 mm.; length to axilla, 42 mm.; 

 length of fore leg, 81 mm.; length of fore foot, 25 mm.; length of pos- 

 terior leg, 71 mm.; length of hind foot, 35 mm. 



Color above, light olivaceous brown, traversed by seven longitudinal 

 broad, black stripes, three on each side and one on the middle line. On 

 the lumbar region the median band disappears, and the pale intervals 

 are wider tUan the black ones; anteriorly the pale ground assumes its 

 normal relation of stripes on a black ground. The inferior begins at 



