15. ANN I ELLA 465 



a'. — Color above black or blackish brown, with or without 

 longitudinal lines. 



A. nigra. — p. 4-67. 



95. Anniella pulchra Gray 



Silvery Footless Lizard 



Plate 42 



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

 locality California); Gray, Zool. Herald, p. 154, pi. XXVIII; 

 Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 230; Cope, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 44; BocouRT, Miss. Sci. au Mex., p. 460, 

 pi. XXII G. fig. 2; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, 

 p. 39; BouLENGER, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., II, 1885, p. 299; Baur. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, 1894, p. 345; Van Denburgh, Occas. 

 Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 115, fig.; Cope, Report U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 674, fig. 138 (part); Van Denburgh, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 3, Zool., Vol. 4, No. 2, 1905, pp. 41-49; 

 Meek, Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., Vol. 7, No. I, 1906, p. 13; 

 DiTMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 168; Grinnell & Grinnell, 

 Throop Inst. Bull., No. XXXV, 1907, p. 32, fig. 9; Van Denburgh 

 & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 4, 1914, pp. 132, 140, 

 142; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 

 1917, p. 63; Stephens, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, 

 No. 4, 1921, p. 62; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 

 Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, p. 51; Nelson, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 

 XVI, 1921, pp. 114, 115. 



Anniella texana Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, Vol. 20, 1887, 

 p. 50 (type locality, El Paso, Texas). 



Anniella pulchra pulchra Grinnell & Camp, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 

 '7, No. 10, 1917, p. 170; CowLES, Journ. Entomol. & Zool., Pomona 

 College, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1920, p. 66. 



Anniella pulchra nigra Cowles, Journ. Entomol. & Zool., Pomona Col- 

 lege, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1920, p. 66. 



Descriftion. — Head slightly depressed, rather short, 

 scarcely distinct from neck even in old examples where 

 temporal regions have become swollen. Snout projecting 

 beyond lower jaw. Rostral plate very large and strongly 

 recurved on top of snout where separated from frontal by 



