8. TEIIDM 519 



Miller, Mendotta), Madera (Coarsegold, Raymond), Mari- 

 posa (between Kinsley and McCauleys, Dudley, Smith 

 Creek six miles cast from Coulterville, Pleasant Valley), 

 El Dorado (Limekiln, Middle Fork American River), San 

 Luis Obispo (Santa Margarita, San Juan Ranch on San Juan 

 River), Monterey (Hames, Carmel Valley, Tassajara Creek, 

 Abbots Ranch Arroyo Seco, vie. Chalk Peak), San Benito 

 (Bear Valley), Santa Clara (Los Gatos, Smith Creek), Con- 

 tra Costa (Mount Diablo), Lake (Kelseyville), Yolo 

 (Rumsey), Sutter (Marysville Buttes), Glenn (Wins- 

 low), Tehama (Mill Creek) and Shasta (McCloud River, 

 Baird), counties, California. 



Habits. — ^Very little is known of the habits of this lizard. 

 When hard pressed it often tries to elude pursuit by burrow- 

 ing, although it can run very swiftly. It mates, near Los 

 Gatos, early in June. 



109. Cnemidophorus tessellatus stejnegeri 



(Van Denburgh) 



Stejneger's Whiptail Lizard 



Plate 54 



? Cnemidophorus tessellatus tessellatus Lockington, Amer. Naturalist, 



Vol. XIV, No. 4, p. 295; Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, p. 



147; Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, Vol. 17, Pt. i, 1892, p. 34. 

 Cnemidophorus grahamii Yarrow & Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Chief of 



Engineers for 1878, Surv. W. looth Merid., Appendix NN, 1878, 



p. ai8. 

 Cnemidophorus sex-lineatus Yarrow & Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Chief of 



Engineers for 1878, Surv. W. looth Merid., Appendix NN, 1878, 



p. 218. 

 Cnemidophorus grahami Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, 



p. 43 (part). 

 Cnemidophorus tessellatus tigris Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1883, p. 32. 



