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growing at the lower levels. They seldom were seen on 

 the ground. On several occasions they were observed eat- 

 ing ants which they had captured crawling up the tree 

 trunks. 



42. Uta microscutata Van Denburgh 



Small-scaled Uta 



Uta microscutata Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 4, 

 1894, (type locality, San Pedro MartirMountain, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, Mexico) ; Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, 

 Vol. 5, 1895, p. 106, pi. VIII, figs. F. and G., and IX; Meek, 

 Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., Vol. VII, No. 1. 1906, p. 10; 

 Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, 

 p. 50; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 

 Vol. XI, 1921, pp. 51, 59; Nelson, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 

 XVI, 1921, pp. 114, 115, 159; Schmidt, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 

 No. 22, 1921, p. 5. 



Uta farviscutata Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 324, 

 fig. 45; Ditmars, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 125. 



Uta stansbuvM-na Mocquard, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Ser. 4, Vol. 

 I, 1899, p. 306. 



Descri-ption. — Head and body depressed. Snout rounded 

 and rather short, with well-developed canthus. Nostrils 

 large, opening upward and outward, much nearer to end of 

 snout than to orbit. Plates on head large, smooth, and us- 

 ually more or less convex; interparietal largest. A single 

 frontal. Four large supraoculars, separated from frontal 

 by one row of granules. Superciliaries long, somewhat pro- 

 jecting laterally, and strongly imbricate. Central subocular 

 very long and narrow. A strong gular fold, edged with 

 rounded scales slightly larger than those preceding. A dor- 

 solateral dermal fold extends from near upper end of ear- 

 opening to above thigh. Largest dorsal scales along median 

 dorsal line keeled, becoming gradually smaller laterally un- 

 til a granular form is assumed from four to nine rows from 



