566 8. TEIID.^ 



a trinomial is used. The granules between the supraoculars 

 and the median head plates in V. h. schmidti are as in V. h. 

 hyperythra. 



Of 14 specimens from Puerto Escondito, nine are typical 

 V. h. schm'uiti while five have two dorsal lines. It, there- 

 fore, is probable that this subspecies intergrades in the south 

 with V . h. hyperythra, as it does in the north with V . h. 

 beldingi. The relations of these three forms are not yet 

 clear, for V . h. beldingi taken near the northern limit of its 

 range in California, where it cannot be considered as inter- 

 grading with V. h. schmidtiy may have a single dorsal line. 



125. Verticaria espiritensis Van Denburgh & Slevin 

 EspiRiTU Santo Island Verticaria 



Verticaria espiritensis Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, p. 397 (type locality, Espiritu Santo 

 Island, Gulf of California, Mexico). 



Description. — Nostrils opening in large anterior nasal 

 plates which meet on top of snout. Posterior nasal forming 

 sutures with anterior nasal, first, second and third labials, 

 loreal, prefrontal, and frontonasal plates. Loreal in con- 

 tact with third and fourth and often second labials, first 

 subocular, preocular, first superciliary, usually supraocular, 

 prefrontal, and posterior nasal, plates. Three or very 

 rarely four supraoculars j first in contact with superciliary, 

 prefrontal, frontal, second supraocular and usually loreal; 

 second usually touching part of frontal; third usually sepa- 

 rated from frontal and frontoparietal; fourth, when pres- 

 ent, separated from parietal by a series of granules. 

 Frontoparietals more than half as large as frontal. One to 

 three rows of small occipital plates. Sublabials separated 

 from the infralabials by granules. Five or six superior and 

 six or seven inferior labials to below the middle of the eye. 



