5 56 8. TEIIDM 



more than do the adults, which were thought to be Cnemi- 

 dophori until their frontoparietal plates were examined. 



This was found to be the most abundant lizard of Cer- 

 albo Island. It was particularly numerous in the vicinity 

 of Punta Gordas at the southern end of the island. It was 

 found in thick brush along the dry washes, ranging from 

 the area just back of the sand beaches inland for one or 

 two miles. 



122. Verticaria hyperythra hyperythra (Cope) 

 Cape Orange-throated Lizard 



Cnemidophorus hyperythrus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 

 p. 103 (type locality, Cape St. Lucas, Lower California); Cope, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 312; Garman, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., Vol. 16, No. I, p. 13; BouLENGER, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., 

 Vol. II, 1885, p. 371; Gadow, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, p. 

 307 (part); Ditmars, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 185 (part). 



Verticaria hyperythra Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, Vol. XI, 1869, 

 p. 158; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, PP- 4^5 93! Yarrow, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 45; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 32, 1887, p. 45; Belding, West Amer. Scientist, Vol. 

 Ill, 1887, p. 97; Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1894, p. 17; 

 Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. I; Vol. 5, 1895, p. 

 128; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 563 (part). 



Verticaria hyperythra hyperythra Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. 

 Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 65; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, pp. 52, 63; Nelson, Mem. 

 Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI, 1921, p. 114, 115. 



Description. — Nostrils opening in large anterior nasal 

 plates, which meet on top of snout. Posterior nasal form- 

 ing sutures with anterior nasal, first, second and sometimes 

 third labials, loreal, prefrontal, and frontonasal plates. 

 Loreal in contact with third and fourth and sometimes sec- 

 ond labials, first subocular, preocular, first superciliary, 

 often supraocular, prefrontal, and posterior nasal, plates. 

 Three or four supraoculars; first in contact with superciliary, 



