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bials are spotted with brown and. white. The tail is 

 cross-barred with the colors of the back, but the white 

 areas are often partly occupied by brown spots. One 

 specimen has the brown bands of the back narrower 

 than the white ones. The lower surfaces are white. 



A living specimen of Coleonyx variegatus is colored as 

 follows: Across the back are five wide bands of dark 

 walnut brown, palest centrally, and separated from one 

 another by dull Naples yellow bands of about half their 

 width. The tail is similarly cross-banded. The upper 

 surfaces of the head and limbs are fawn color, the limbs 

 being faintly and the head strongly marked with small 

 irregular spots of walnut brown. The edges of the eye- 

 lids are white. A white line runs back from the eye to 

 the top of the neck, where it meets or almost meets its 

 fellow of the opposite side. A walnut line, bordered 

 above and below with white, connects the eye and nos- 

 tril. The tongue is rich pink with a bright red tip. 

 The lower surfaces are white. The eye is pale grayish 

 yellow with a network of fine black lines. 



Length to amis 32 57 61 65 



Snout to orbit 3 5 5 6 



Snout to ear 8 13 13 14 



Orbit to ear 3 5 5 6 



Fore limb 12 19 22 23 



Hind limb 16 27 28 28 



Base of fifth to end of fourth toe 4 6 7 8 



DiMribution. — The Banded Gecko probably ranges 

 over the greater part of the Mojave and Colorado Des- 

 erts of southeastern California. In the north, it has 

 been taken in Owen's and Death Valleys in Inyo Coun- 

 ty; in the west, at Mojave in Kern County and San Ja- 

 cinto in Riverside County; and in the southeast, at Fort 

 Yuma in San Diego County. Thence its range extends 

 east to Tucson, Arizona, and south into Mexico. 



