18 NEW LIZARD FROM CALIFORNIA— STEJNEGER. 



ingi, tliougli otherwise they are typical V. liyperytlira. The cliaraeter 

 is of considerable imi^ortance, however, as it appears to hold in more 

 than 90 per cent, of the specimens. 



I am under great obligations to the authorities of the Leland Stan- 

 ford Jr. University, iK^rticularly Dr. Charles H. Gilbert, for the oppor- 

 tunity to examine the two specimens from San Jacinto, as with only one 

 specimen in our own collection I should have been unable to appreciate 

 the difference between the two forms. 



I take great pleasure in naming this new species after Mr. L. Belding, \ 

 whose extensive and excellent herpetological collecting in Lower Cali- 

 fornia as well as in Upper California has never been adequately recog- 

 nized. 



