1922] Schmidt, Amphibians and Reptile* of Lower California 657 



Range. — Southern Lower California, north at least to Francisquito Bay. 



Lower Californian Records. — La Paz, Yarrow, 1882a, p. 442; Cape St. 

 Lucas, Yarrow, 1882, p. 57; Carmen Island, Townsend, 1890, p. 144; San Jose del 

 Cabo. Espiritu Santo Island, Van Denburgh, 1895, p. 105. Santa Rosalia and San 

 Ignacio. Moequard, 1899, p. 306; Buena Vista, Todos Santos, Van Denburgh and 

 Slevin. 1921«, p. 59. 



The Albatross collections contain a sufficient series of specimens to 

 establish the validity of this species definitely. The localities represented 

 are: Magdalena (U. S. N. M. No. 64511); Cape San Lucas (U. S. N. M. 

 Nos. 64512-13) ; San Jose del Cabo (U. S. N. M. No. 64505) ; Pichilinque 

 Bay (A. M. N. H. Nos. 5459, 5461, U. S. N. M. Nos. 64506-10) ; San Jos6 

 Island (5439) ; Agua Verde Bay (5449) ; Carmen Island (5440^-46, 5448, 

 U. S. N. M. No. 64260) ; and Francisquito Bay (5452-53). In addition 

 a fine series from Espiritu Santo Island, opposite La Paz, has been 

 kindly loaned for study by the U. S. National Museum. 



The number of dorsal scales from rump to occipital ranges from 82 

 to 106, the average of twenty specimens being 91. The femoral pores 

 average 14.5 (twenty-one specimens). The most satisfactory character 

 distinguishing the series at hand from Arizonan and New Mexican speci- 

 mens is the notably greater length of the hind leg. In eighteen male 

 specimens, this ranges from .74 to .85 of the body length, while in the 

 northern series, the range is .65 to .79, average .71, in twenty-four male 

 specimens examined. The average given by Richardson, who includes 

 four specimens from southern Lower California, is .74 for twenty-three 

 specimens. 



Uta niannophorus Dickerson agrees with elegans in scale counts and 

 length of hind leg; the color characters on which it is based are so closely 

 approached in specimens of U. elegans and so ill defined in some paratypes 

 of mannophorus that I do not think it can be maintained even as an in- 

 sular race. 



Van Denburgh and Slevin (1921a, p. 59) note the difference in 

 habitat between Uta elegans in Lower California and the subspecies of 

 U. stansburiana to the north. Uta elegans frequents the coast and was 

 not found inland. 



Uta nolascensis Van Denburgh and Slevin 



Uta nolascensis Vax Denburgh and Slevin, 1921c, p. 395. 

 Range. — San Pedro Xolasco Island, Gulf of California. 



Uta microscutata Van Denburgh 

 Uta microscutata Van Denburgh, 1894, p. 298; Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, 



p. 50. 

 Uta stansburiana Mocquard, 1899, p. 306. 



