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Genus 15. ANNIELLA. 



Anniella, GRAY, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), X, p. 440 (type 

 pulchra) . 



The scales are small, smooth, imbricate, and rather 

 soft; the dorsals, laterals, ventrals, and caudals nearly 

 equal-sized. The ears are entirely concealed and the 

 eyes partially so. The tail is very blunt and ends in a 

 round plate. The preanal scales are numerous. The 

 head-plates are few and large. The nasal extends to or 

 almost to the labial margin, the first labial appearing on 

 the lower surface of the lip. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 



a. Color above drab or silvery gray or yellowish white, with three or more 

 black or brown lines A. pulchra. p. 1 16. 



a 2 . Color above black or blackish brown, with or without dark longitudi- 

 nal lines A. nigra. p. 118. 



32. Anniella pulchra Gray. SILVERY FOOTLESS LIZ- 

 ARD. 



Anniella pulchra, GRAY, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), X, 1852, p. 440 

 (type locality California); "GRAY, Zool. Herald, p. 154, pi. 

 XXVIII"; BOCOTJRT, Miss. Sci. au Mex., p. 460, pi. XXII, fig. 

 2; BACK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, 1894, p. 345. 



Description. Head slightly depressed, rather short, 

 scarcely distinct from neck even in old examples where 

 temporal regions have become swollen. Snout project- 

 ing beyond lower jaw. Rostral plate very large and 

 strongly recurved on top of snout, where separated from 

 frontal by a pair of large prefrontals. Behind large 

 frontal, a single very broad frontoparietal, its posterior 

 margin notched to receive a small interparietal with 

 which it frequently unites. On each side of interpa- 

 rietal, a small parietal, and behind these usually two 

 small occipitals separated by an interoccipital. A large 

 supraocular precedes several smaller plates. A large 

 preocular with, usually, a smaller one below it. Nasal 



