THREE NEW LIZARDS. 3OI 



superior labials. Posterior gular scales rather large, ab- 

 ruptly separated from the very large and convex anterior 

 gulars. Plates of collar very large, but smaller along its 

 edge. Ventral plates in eight longitudinal rows. Back, 

 neck and upper surfaces of limbs covered with very 

 small, smooth, convex granules. Five rows of brachial 

 plates; three rows of antebrachials; no post-antebrachial 

 plates. Femoral plates in seven rows. Twenty and 

 twenty-two femoral pores. Scales on tail large, oblique, 

 slightly pointed, and with strong diagonal keels. 



Color, above yellowish-brown posteriorly, becoming 

 grayish towards head, paler on sides; with nine longitu- 

 dinal rows of very irregular black spots. Upper surface 

 of limbs similarly marked. Black markings on sides of 

 head and neck and on gular region large and well defined. 

 Lower surfaces creamy white, maculated with black. 



Length, 343 mm.; head, 26 mm.; hind leg, 70 mm.; 

 fore leg, 37 mm.; tail, 252. 



Habitat: Northwestern Lower California, and San 

 Diego County, California. 



Twelve other specimens collected by Mr. Stowell at 

 the type locality, at San Telmo, and in the foothills of 

 the San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California, do 

 not differ from the type in any important particular. The 

 number of femoral pores varies from nineteen to twenty- 

 five, of brachial plates from four to five rows and of ante- 

 brachials from two to three rows. 



Forty-one specimens from San Diego County, Califor- 

 nia (collected in Santa Ysabel, Clogston's and Hemet 

 Valleys; at San Jacinto and in the Julian Mountains, by 

 Messrs. Hyatt and vStoddard), are essentially like those 

 from Lower California, but average slightly paler in gen- 

 eral coloration. 



