10. UTA 22A_ 



Puerto Escondido, on the peninsula, and on San Marcos, 

 Coronado, Carmen, Danzante, San Jose, and San Francisco 

 islands, in the Gulf of California. 



43. Uta palmeri Stejneger 

 San Pedro Martir Island Uta 



Uia fdmeri, Stejneger, North American Fauna, No. 3, 1890, p. 106 

 (type locality, San Pietro Martir Island, Gulf of California) ; 

 Van Denburch, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 1895, p. 106; 

 Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 313, fig. 39; 

 DiTMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 124; Van Denburgh & Slevin, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 4, 1914, pp. 132, 147; Stej- 

 neger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 5 1 ; 

 Nelson, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci, Vol. XVI, 1921, p. 114; Schmidt, 

 Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 22, 1921, p. 5. 



Description. — Body and head considerably depressed} 

 snout low, rounded and rather long; nostrils large, open- 

 ing upward or outward nearer to end of snout than to or- 

 bit. Head-plates large, smooth, nearly flat, interparietal 

 largest; frontal divided transversely; four or five enlarged 

 supraoculars, separated from the frontals and frontoparie- 

 tals by one or two series of granules. Superciliaries long, 

 narrow and projecting. Central subocular very long, nar- 

 row and strongly keeled. Rostral and supralabials long 

 and low; usually six or seven supralabials. Symphyseal 

 moderately small, followed by several pairs of large plates 

 separated (except first) from the infralabials by one or two 

 series of moderately enlarged sublabials. Gular region cov- 

 ered with small, smooth, hexagonal or rounded scales which 

 change gradually to granules on sides of neck and to larger 

 imbricate scales on strong gular fold, largest usually on den- 

 ticulate edge of gular fold where somewhat larger than 

 ventrals. Several slightly enlarged convex plates in front 

 of ear-opening. Ear denticulation short, of two to four 



