﻿15. ANN I ELLA 467 



Distribution. — This footless lizard ranges from central 

 California south to northern Lower California. The most 

 northern locality from which I have obtained specimens of 

 this lizard is Contra Costa County. It doubtless occurs in 

 many parts of the San Joaquin Valley, where it has been 

 taken in Fresno (Fresno), Tulare (Giant Forest Sequoia 

 National Park at 6,400 feet), and Kern (between Oil City 

 and Poso Creek) counties. Farther west, it occurs in the in- 

 terior of Monterey (San Ardo), San Benito (Bear Valley), 

 end San Luis Obispo (Carrizo Plain southeast from Simmler, 

 Morro), counties. In southern California, it has been 

 found in Los Angeles (Redondo, Hyperion, Claremont, La 

 Canada, near Pasadena), San Bernardino (San Bernardino), 

 Riverside (San Jacinto), Orange (Laguna Beach), and San 

 Diego (San Diego, Coronado, mountains near San Diego, 

 Twin Falls, La Puerta Valley), counties. 



In northern Lower California, it has been secured at 

 San Salado Canyon, San Jose, San Quintin, and on San 

 Geronimo and Los Coronados (South and East) islands. 



Habits. — The habits and food of the Footless Lizard or 

 "Silver Snake" are the same as those of Anniella nigra. 



96. Anniella nigra Fischer 



Black. Footless Lizard 



Plate 43 



Anniella nigra Fischer, Abh. nat. Verein Hamburg, IX, I, 1886 (1885), 

 p. 9, pi. (type locality, San Diego, California, probably an error). 



Anniella nigra Boulenger, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1885, 

 p. 300; Van Denburgh, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, 

 p. 118; Rivers, Bull. South. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. 1, 1902, p. 27; Van 

 Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 3, Zool., Vol. 4, No. 2, 1905, 

 pp. 42-49; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. Amer. Amph. 

 Rept., 1917, p. 63. 



