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into whose crevices it quickly disappears when approached 

 too closely. Miss Atsatt writes: "The grotesque large black 

 males with their bull-dog-like pose, the gaudily colored 

 males of medium size, the paler cross-barred females and 

 juvenals are inseparably associated with the foot-hills and 

 lower areas of San Jacinto. Their wildness or shyness 

 seems to vary with localities. Generally in the late after- 

 noon the males are very bold and will calmly await approach 

 within a few feet." 



72 Sceloporus licki Van Denburgh 

 Painted Scaly Lizard 



Sceloporus licki Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci,, Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 

 1895, p. no, pi. X (type locality, Sierra San Lazaro, Lower 

 California, Mexico); Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1897, p. 500; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 363; 

 Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, 

 p. 54; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 

 Vol. XI, 1921, pp. 51, 61; Nelson, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 

 XVI, 1921, pp. 114, 115. 



Description. — Head and body somewhat depressed. 

 Snout rounded. Two scales on canthus rostralis. Nostrils 

 large, opening almost upward, nearer to end of snout than 

 to orbit. Upper head-shields smooth, somewhat convex, 

 moderately large; interparietal largest. Frontal usually 

 divided transversely. Parietal and frontoparietal in contact 

 with enlarged supraoculars. Frontals separated from supra- 

 oculars by a series of small plates. Superciliaries long and 

 strongly imbricate. Middle subocular long, narrow and 

 strongly keeled. Rostral broad and rather low. Labials 

 long and low. A series of large sublabials, separated from 

 infralabials, except first, by one or two rows of smaller sub- 

 labials. Gulars large, smooth, imbricate, bicuspid. Ear- 

 opening large, almost vertical, with a strong anterior denticu- 



