520 18. CNEMIDOPHORUS 



Cnemidophorus stejnegeri Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 

 2, Vol. 4, Pt. I, 1894, p. 300 (type locality, Between San Rafael 

 and Ensenada, Lower California); Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 1895, p. 126; Van Denburgh, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 1896, p. 1005; Van Denburgh, 

 Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 139; Meek, Field Colum- 

 bian Mus., Zool. Ser., Vol. VII, No. i, 1906, p. 14; Grinnell & 

 Grinnell, Throop Inst. Bull., No. XXXV, 1907, p. 21)-, figs- 10, 

 II; Grinnell, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 5, No. i, 1908, p. 163; 

 Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 191 2, pp. 

 150, 151; HuRTER, First Ann. Rep. Laguna Marine Lab., 1912, p. 

 67; Atsatt, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 1913, p. 39; 

 Camp, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool. Vol. 17, No. 7, 1916, p. 71. 



Cnemidophorus tigris utidiilatus McLain, Critical Notes, 1899, p. 9 

 (part). 



Cnemidophorus grahamii stejnegerii Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus., for 

 1898, 1900, p. 599. 



Cnemidophorus tigris stejnegeri Grinnell & Camp, Univ. Cal. Publ. 

 Zool., Vol. 17, 1917, p. 174; CowLES, Journ. Entomol. & Zool., 

 Pomona College, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1920, p. 66; Stephens, Trans. 

 San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, No. 4, 1921, p. 63. 



Cnemidophorus tessellatus stejnegeri Stejneger & Barbour, Check List 



;■,: N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 68; Van Denburgh & Slevin, 



■ '• Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, p. 51; Nelson, Mem. 



f Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI, 1921, p. 114. 



Description. — Body long with a very slender tail and 

 very long legs. Nostrils opening in large anterior nasal 

 plates; latter in contact on top of snout. Posterior nasal 

 forming sutures with anterior nasal, first, second and third 

 labials, loreal, prefrontal, and frontonasal plates. Loreal in 

 contact with third and fourth labials, first subocular, pre- 

 ocular, first superciliary, prefrontal, posterior nasal, and 

 sometimes first supraocular plates. Four supraoculars, fourth 

 smallest. Second, third, and fourth supraoculars separated 

 from superciliaries by small convex granules. Similar gran- 

 ules between third and fourth supraoculars and frontoparie- 

 tal and parietal. One to three transverse series of small 



