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of that stream. I collected it in several localities in 

 Brewster and Jeff Davis Counties and consider it a 

 much commoner animal than tessellattis, although 

 the Biological Survey party obtained more specimens 

 of that species. 



61. Cnemidophorus tfRAHAMii Baird and Girard. Gra- 

 ham's Tiget Lizard. 

 Western Texgg from the Panhandle south through 

 the plains to the Mexican boundary. Our lim- 

 ited knowledge of the range of this rare species, 

 the handsomestof all Texas lizards, indicates that it 

 is very local inits distribution. It was originally 

 described in the |arly fifties from two specimens col- 

 lected "between El Paso and San Antonio" by one 

 of the Governm^t expeditions. In 1880, Cope re- 

 cocrded two colleted in Tule Canyon, Swisher Coun- 

 ty, in the southen Panhandle district. In 1903, Ar- 

 thur Erwin Brownnentioned a specimen in his list of 

 the reptiles of Pec^. In 1910, I found it not uncom- 

 mon in the canyons^nd breaks in Armstrong County 

 and collected a ser»s of 23 specimens. Unlike the 

 young of tessellatuswhich are striped, the young of 

 this species have th color pattern of the adult. In 

 many of its habits, grahamii reminds one of an 

 iguanian lizard. 



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,62. Leiolepisma laterale Sj, Ground Lizard. 



Eastern and Centra^exas, south almost to the 

 mouth of the Rio Grandqiver. In the south-central 

 section of the State is covion in Kendall and Comal 

 Counties and ranges we&^^rd well into the granite 

 country. 



63. EUMECES QUINQUELINEATUS ^n. Blue-tailed Lizard : 

 Red-head "Scorpion." 

 Eastern Texas, principal jn the timber belt, 

 gputh to Victoria and Refugiciounties, west to Dal- 



