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were taken out than had been put in. This may have 

 been due to a mistake in the record, but was more prob- 

 ably caused by the birth of young after capture. The 

 adults were afterwards carefully examined and three 

 were found to contain young, showing that the species 

 is ovoviviparous. One of the three contains two fetuses, 

 the others have one each. The fetal specimens are 

 about the size of the young found under the dead 

 branches. They were taken on the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth of September. 



36. — Xantusia henshawi Stejneger. Henshaw's Night 

 Lizard. 



Xantusia henshawi, Stejx., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893, p. 467 

 (tyjie locality Witch Creek, San Dieg-o County, Califor- 

 nia); VaxDenbcrgh, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci.(2), V, 1895, p 530. 



Zablepsis henshavii, Cope, Am. Nat., XXIX, 1895, pp. 758, 860. 



Xantusia picta, Cope, Am. Nat., XXIX, 1895, pp. 859, 939 (type 

 locality " Tejon Pass, California"). 



Descrij^tion. — Body greatly depressed, with very short 

 limbs. Upper surface of head very fiat. Three folds 

 on throat. Nostril opening in a small scute at junction 

 of rostral, internasal, postnasal, and first labial plates. 

 Rostral broad and rather low, bounded by first 

 labial, nasal, and internasal plates. Two inter- 

 nasals followed by a large subquadrate fronto- 

 nasal, sometimes divided longitudinally; behind this, 

 two prefrontals, bordered posteriorly by broad frontal 

 and first superciliary plates. Each of two frontoparietal 

 plates in contact with frontal, second, third, and fourth 

 superciliaries, first supratemporal, parietal, interparietal, 

 and its fellow of opposite side. Parietals and interpa- 

 rietal bordered behind by two large occipitals. One or 

 more interoccipitals sometimes present. A row of small 

 supratemporals along outer edge of occipital and parietal 



