10. VTA 189 



Sierra El Taste, Miraflores, Sierra San Lazaro, Triunfo, 

 San Bartolo, Agua Caliente, and the Sierra Laguna. Moc- 

 quard records it from La Paz. It occurs also on Espiritu 

 Santo Island and the close-lying Isla Partida. 



Habits. Mr. Slevin notes that "as a rule they are 

 fairjy abundant where found. They frequent the cracks 

 and crevices in and between the huge granite boulders piled 

 up in the canyon bottoms and the small adjacent arroyos. 

 They resemble Uta mearnsi very much in their habits, 

 crawling along the face of the rock but always keeping 

 close to a crack or crevice into which they disappear on 

 one's approach. Being rather shy, they will not permit 

 one to come closer than ten or twenty feet. On several 

 occasions they were seen to jump from boulder to boulder 

 a distance of four feet by actual measurement. They were 

 found to range up to 5,400 feet in the Sierra Laguna, but 

 at this elevation they were rare and only three were seen 

 in a small isolated pile of granite in a mountain meadow. 

 The two specimens collected here did not show the brilliant 

 coloring of those secured at lower levels." 



32. Uta repens Van Denburgh 

 SHORT-NOSED GIANT UTA 



Uta repens VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 1895, 

 p. 102, pis. VII, and VIII, figs. A-E, (type locality, Comondu, 

 Lower California); COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 

 1900, p. 303, fig. 36; DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 123; STEJ- 

 NEGER & BARBOUR, Check List. N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 

 51; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4-, Vol. 

 XI, 1921, pp. 51, 58; NELSON, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI, 

 1921, pp. 114, 115. 



Uta thalassina MOCQUARD, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 4-, 

 Vol. I, 1899, p. 310, pi. II, figs. 2, 3 (part). 



