SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF EXPLORATION BY THE U. S. FISH COM- 

 MISSION STEAMER ALBATROSS. 



[Published by permission of Hon. Marshall McDonald, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.] 



No. XV.— REPTILES FROM CLARION AND SOCORRO ISLANDS AND THE GULF 

 OF CALIFORNIA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



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Chas. H. Townsend, 



Resident iVaturalist of the Steamer Albatross. 



The reptiles mentioned in this report were collected in 1888-89 dur- 

 ing the cruise of tlie steamer Albatross along the west coast of America 

 and in the Gulf of California. The collection includes twelve species, 

 one of which is new and here described. 



CLARION ISLANDS. 

 Uta clarionensis sp. nov. 



Body with irregular dorsal and lateral black markings ; limbs with 

 transverse black bars on outer surfaces. Four dorsal ridges, consist- 

 ing of single, strongly carinate scales, the middle pair separated by an 

 irregular series of smaller simi)le scales. There is a shorter pair of 

 dorsolateral ridges of carinate scales, somewhat less regular. Tail 

 more than twice the head and body j otherwise similar in size and pro- 

 portions to V. symmetrica. Colors bluish, similar to U. anriculata from 

 Socorro Island. Adult; under parts much lighter blue than upper; 

 young, dusky above, whitish below. Five specimens, March 4, 1880. 

 C. H. Townsend. 



I saw a snake on Clarion Island which I was not able to capture. 



SOCORRO ISLAND. 



Uta auriculata Cope. 



Color bright blue, variegated with black markings on upper surface 

 of body and limbs. Kine specimens, March 8, 1889. 



rroceedin^s Xatioiinl Muspiiiii, Vol. XIII— No. 800. 



