Sept. 7, 1921 Vol. VII, pp. 113-115 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



A NEW PHRYNOSOMA FROM CERROS ISLAND 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR 



My colleague Mr. K. P. Schmidt, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, has very courteously called my attention to 

 the fact that the species of Holbrookia which I recently described 

 (Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, VII, 1921, p. 79) as H. thermophila, 

 is probably the same as Bocourt's H. elegans, a species which I 

 had not seen. I was misled by Cope's statement (Rep. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1898 [1900], p. 286) that in elegans the tail was 

 shorter than head and body, whereas in reality the reverse is 

 true. Most of my typical specimens came from Mr. W. W. 

 Brown's collection made during the John E. Thayer expedition 

 to Lower California. Again I am describing a novelty from 

 Mr. Brown's material. This time my notice has been brought 

 to it by Mr. Schmidt himself, and for this reason I gladly dedi- 

 cate it to him, with the sincere hope that the name may not find 

 a prompt abiding place in the limbo of synonymy as did its 

 predecessor. 



Phrynosoma schmidti sp. nov. 



Type, M.C.Z. no. 15,142, from Cerros Island, Lower C^fornia, Mexico, 

 collected by Mr. W. W. Brown. There are three paratypes having the 

 same data. 



This species is clearly a derivative from the Phrynosoma blain- 

 villii stock of the mainland, and it is nearest to that form. It 



