CROCODILIANS, LIZARDS, AND SNAKES. 



607 



lliey number only lifteeu, and iu Cat. Xo. 17208, seveuteeii. There is 

 no freuoorbital plate iu the latter. 



Cnvmklophonts gularh -scalaris Cope. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS GULARIS SERICEUS Cope. 



Cnemidophorus gula7-is sericeus Cope, Trans. Amer. I'liil. Soc, XVII, 1892, p. 48, 

 pi. XI, fig. 11. 



Fig. 120. 



CNEMIUOrilORUS GULAEIS SERICEUS COPE. 



= 1. 



Southwestern Texas. 



Cat. No. M6G, U.S.N.M. 



Scales of tbe collar moderate, subequal, in four or five rows; mar- 

 ginal scales equal to the others. Mesoptychial scales considerably 

 smaller than the gular scales, which are large, aud extend from one 

 ramus to the other. Scales of the back rounded, not i)rominent, small, 

 measuring .33 mm. Supraorbital plates wider than long, except the 

 anterior, and not separated from the frontaparietals by scales. Inter- 



