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Genus 15. ANNIELLA. 



Anniella, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), X, jj. 440 (type 

 pulchra) . 



The scales are small, smooth, imbricate, and rather 



soft; the dorsals, laterals, ventrals, and caudals nearly 



equal-sized. The ears are entirely concealed and the 



eyes partially so. The tail is very blunt and ends in a 



round plate. The preanal scales are numerous. The 



head-plates are few and large. The nasal extends to or 



almost to the labial margin, the first labial appearing on 



the lower surface of the lip. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 



a. — Color above drab or silvery gray or yellowish white, with three or more 

 black or browu lines A. pulchra. — p. 116. 



a"'*. — Color above black or blackish brown, with or without dark longitudi- 

 nal lines A. nigra. — p. 118. 



32. — Anniella pulchra Gray. Silvery Footless Liz- 

 ard. 



Anniella pulchra, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), X, 1852, p. 440 

 (type locality California); "Gray, Zool. Herald, p. 154, pi. 

 XXVIII "; BocouRT, Miss. Sci. au Mex., p. 460, pi. XXIIG, fig. 

 2; Baur, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, 1894, p. 345. 



Description. — Head slightly depressed, rather short, 

 scarcely distinct from neck even in old examples where 

 temporal regions have become swollen. Snout project- 

 ing beyond lower jaw. Rostral plate very -large and 

 strongly recurved on top of snout, where separated from 

 frontal by a pair of large prefrontals. Behind large 

 frontal, a single very broad frontoparietal, its posterior 

 margin notched to receive a small interparietal with 

 which it frequently unites. On each side of interpa- 

 rietal, a small parietal, and behind these usually two 

 small occipitals separated by an interoccipital. A large 

 supraocular precedes several smaller plates. A large 

 preocular with, usually, a smaller one below it. Nasal 



