274 ANGPID^. 



or in contact with the loreals or with the frontal, separated from 

 the rostral hy one or two pairs of shields ; sometimes a small azygos 

 shield behind the rostral, separating the anterior pair; nasal usually in 

 contact with the rostral ; two superposed postnasals, followed by one 

 or two loreals ; two or three small outer supraoculars; ten or eleven 

 upper labials. Sides of neck granular. Lateral fold very strong, 

 beginning on the nock. Nuchal shields in eight to twelve longi- 

 tudinal series, keeled except in very young specimens. Dorsal 

 scales in fourteen or sixteen longitudinal series, sharply keeled, of 

 nearly the same size as the ventrals ; forty-five to fifty-two trans- 

 verse series. Ventrals in twelve longitudinal series. The adpressed 

 fore limb reaches the angle of the mouth or the eye ; the hind limb 

 measures half to two thirds the distance from axilla to groin. Tail 

 once and two thirds to twice as long as head and body, round, sub- 

 quadrangular at the base ; upper caudal scales sharply keeled. 

 Brown or olive above, usually with irregular undulated blackish 

 cross bars bordered with small yellowish spots posteriorly ; back 

 sometimes irregularly spotted with blackish, and the flanks closely 

 spotted with black and dotted with yellowish ; lower surfaces whitish 

 olive, uniform or with longitudinal series of confluent brown spots. 



millim. milliin. 



Total length 334 Fore limb 30 



Head 29 Hind limb 35 



Width of head .... 21 Tail 220 



Eody 85 



Western Xorth America to Texas ; Central America. 



a-b, c. (5 , $ , & yg. San Juan I. Vancouver's I. H.M.S. ' Plumper.' 



d. cJ. Vancouver's I. Col. Hawkins [P.]. 



e-f. (S . Near Orca I., Gulf of The Lords of the Ad- 

 Georgia, miralty [P.]- 



(/. c? • Oregon. J. K. Lord, Esq. [P. 



h. 2 • Sumass Lake J. K. Lord, Esq. [P. 



i-l, m-p. Ad., hgr., Monterev. 



& yg- 



q. c? . California. Mr. Bridges [C.]. 



1-t. (S ■ Pacific coast of N. 



America. 

 u. Ad. N.W. coast of Central (Type of G. xvieg^natini.) 



America. 

 V. Hgr. - Cartago, Cesta Rica, 



w. (S . ? Haslar Collection. 



(Type of G. burnettii.) 



12. Gerrhonotus kingii. 



Elgaria kingii, Gray, Cat. p. 54. 

 Elgaria kingii, Gray, Ann. N. 11. i. 1838, p. 390. 

 Geri'lionotus multifasciatus, Diitn. ^ Bibr. v. p. 401. 

 Elgaria nobilis, Baird Sf Gir. Proc. Ac. Bliilad. 1852, p. 129. 

 Gerrhonotus nobilis, Baird, U.S. Me.v. Bound. Surv., Rept. p. 11, 

 pi. XXV. tigs. 1-8. 



