58 2. EUBLEPHARIDJE 



3. Coleonyx variegatus (Baird) 



BANDED GECKO 



Plate 1 



Stenodactylus variegatus BAIRD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, p. 254 

 (type locality, Colorado Desert); BAIRD, U. S. Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., Vol. II, Kept., 1859, p. 12, pis. 23, figs. 9-27, 24, figs. 11-19; 

 BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. Mex., Kept., 1873, p. 51 j COOPER, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., Vol. IV., 1873, p. 67. 



Coleonyx variegatus COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 310; 

 COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, p. 85; COPE, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, p. 50; COUES, Surv. W. 100th Merid., 

 Vol. V., 1875, p. 590; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 

 1883, p. 72 (part); STEJNEGER, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, 

 p. 162; VAN DENBURGH, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, 

 p. 40, fig.; COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 466 

 (part); MEEK, Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., Vol. VII, No. 1, 



1906, p. 4; RUTHVEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXIII, 



1907, p. 554; VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 

 1912, p. 152; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 

 Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 1913, p. 397; GRINNELL & CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publs. 

 Zool., Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 149; STEJNEGER & BARBOUR, 

 Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 43; STEPHENS, Copeia, 

 No. 54, 1918, p. 34; PACK, Copeia, No. 88, 1920, p. 101; 

 STEPHENS, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, No. 4, 1921, 

 p. 60; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 

 Vol. XI, 1921, pp. 28, 50, 55; NELSON, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., 

 Vol. XVI, 1921, pp. 114, 126. 



Eublefharis fasciatus BOULENGER, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, 1885, 

 p. 234 (type locality, Ventanas, Mexico). 



Eublefharis variegatus COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, 

 p. 466, fig. 86 (part); MOCQUARD, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. Paris, 

 Ser. 4, Vol. I, 1899, p. 300; DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 100, 

 pi. XXXIII, fig.; VORHIES, Univ. Ariz. Agric. Exper. Station Bull. 

 No. 83, 1917, fig. p. 367. 



Description. Snout narrow but rounded and a little 

 longer than distance between orbit and ear-opening. Head 

 and upper surface of body covered with minute granules 



