18. CNEMIDOPHORUS 503 



Distribution. — This species has been found in central 

 and southeastern Arizona, southern Utah, New Mexico, 

 vvestern Texas, and northern Mexico. 



In Arizona, it is common in Cochise (Fairbank, Camp 

 Bowie, Willcox, Bisbee, Rucker Canyon, Paradise, Cave 

 Creek, Chiricahua Mountains, in the Huachuca Mountains 

 at Fort Huachuca and Montezuma, Gardner, Ash, Brown, 

 Ramsey, Miller and Carr canyons), Santa Cruz (Santa Rita 

 Mountains near Pete Mountain and in Agua Caliente Can- 

 yon, Calabasas, Mowry, Nogales), Pima (Sawmill and Ma- 

 dera canyons in the Santa Rita Mountains, Tucson, Sabino 

 Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Santa Cruz River, Fort 

 Lowell, in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains, and at 

 8,500 feet on Mt. Lemmon), Graham (Camp Grant), 

 Pinal (Oracle), Yavapai (Prescott, Fort Whipple), Mohave 

 (Hualpai Mountains, Hackberry at 3,500 feet), Coconino 

 (Oak Creek, Lees Ferry, Colorado Chiquito, Flagstaff, 

 Winslow), Navajo (Camp Apache), and Apache (White 

 Mountains), counties. 



In Utah, it has been collected in Washington (Bellevue 

 at 4,000 feet, Peter's Leap Creek at 5,000 feet, Ash Forks 

 Creek at 5,000 feet) Iron (Kamarrah Canyon, Paragonah 

 Canyon at 5,500 feet), and San Juan (Bluff), counties. 



In Sonora, it has been secured two miles south of No- 

 gales, at Pinetos Camp 32 miles south of Nogales, at San 

 Pedro Bay, and at Guyamas. 



Habits. — This is a ground-dwelling lizard, as are the 

 the other members of the genus. Its food is said to consist 

 entirely of insects, beetles and ants forming the bulk of 

 the stomach contents. 



Mr. Strecker notes that in Texas "the female Cnetnido- 

 ■phorus gularis usually scoops out a shallow hollow in tne 

 sand and deposits her eggs to a depth of only an inch or 



