﻿450 4. ANGUIDJE 



ing's specimen was secured in the Laguna or Victoria Moun- 

 tains, not at La Paz. 



Remarks. — At an altitude of 5,400 feet in the Sierra 

 Laguna, Mr. Slevin found one of these lizards under a dead 

 yucca stalk, three under fallen pine trees, and two running 

 about in the grass of a mountain meadow. 



92. Gerrhonotus scincicauda scincicauda (Skilton) 



Western Alligator Lizard 



Plate 40 



f Gerrhonotus Wicgmannii Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1845, p. 54, (type 

 locality, Mexico?); O'Shauchnessy, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 

 4, Vol. XII, 1873, P- 46- 

 Tropidolepis scincicauda Skilton, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, Ser. 2, Vol. 

 VII, 1849, P- 202 » pl- at P- 3 I2 > fig s - !-3 (type locality, Dalles of 

 the Columbia). 

 Elgaria scincicauda Baird & Girard, Stansbury's Exped. Gt. Salt Lake, 

 1853, p. 348, pl. IV, figs. 1-3; Girard, U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp., 

 p. 210, pl. XXIII, figs. 1-9. 

 Elgaria grandis Baird & Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. VI, 

 1852, p. 176 (type locality, Oregon); Girard, U. S. Explor. Exped., 

 Herp., p. 212, pl. XXII, figs. 1-8; Lord, Naturalist Vancouver 

 Island, Vol. II, 1866, p. 307. 

 Gerrhonotus multicarinatus Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, 

 pp. 64, 70; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 46 (part); 

 Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 47 (part); Cope, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, pp. 23, 27 (?); Townsend, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 10, 1887, p. 238 (?); Cope, Report U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 520, fig. 93 (part). 

 Gerrhonotus grandis Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, P- 46; 



Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 47 (part). 

 Gerrhonotus scincicaudus Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 47 

 (part); Yarrow & Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers for 

 1878, Surv. W. 100th Merid., Appendix NN, 1878, p. 219 (part); 

 Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 48 (part); Town- 

 send, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 10, 1887, p. 238 (?). 

 Gerrhonotus cceruleus Boulenger, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1885, 

 p. 273 (part). 



