228 3. IGUANIDJE 



Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 175 (part); VAN DENBURGH, Report 

 U. S. Fish Commiss., 1894, p. 56; VAN DENBURGH, Occas. Papers 

 Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 66 (part); McLAiN, Critical Notes, 

 1899, p. 3 (part); COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, 

 p. 306 (part); GARY, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 33, 1911, p. 26; VAN 

 DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 1912, p. 156; 

 TAYLOR, Univ. Cal. Publs. Zool., Vol. 7, No. 10, 1912, p. 348; 

 ELLIS & HENDERSON, Univ. Colorado Studies, Vol. X, No. 2, 1913, 

 p. 65 ; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 

 5, 1915, p. 103; RICHARDSON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 48, 

 1915, p. 412. 



Uta stansburiana nevadensis RUTHVEN, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 

 26, 1913, p. 27, fig.(typc locality, Maggie Basin, Cortez Range 

 near Carlin, Nevada) ; RICHARDSON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 

 48, 1915, p. 413; RUTHVEN & GAIGE, Occas. Papers Mus. Univ. 

 Mich., No. 8, 1915, p. 18. 



Uta stansburiana stansburiana CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publs. Zool., Vol. 17, 

 No. 7, 1916, p. 68; GRINNELL & CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publs. Zool., 

 Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 154; STEJNEGER & BARBOUR, Check List 

 N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 51; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, pp. 28, 33, 40; 

 SCHMIDT, Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 22, 1921, p. 5. 



Description. Body and head considerably depressed. 

 Snout low, rounded and rather short, with well-developed 

 canthus. Nostrils large, opening upward and outward, 

 nearer to end of snout than to orbit. Plates on head large, 

 smooth and usually more or less convex 5 interparietal larg- 

 est. Frontal plate usually divided transversely. Three to 

 five svipraoculars, enlarged, and separated from frontals by 

 one row of granules. Superciliaries long, somewhat project- 

 ing laterally, and strongly imbricate. Central subocular 

 very long, narrow, and strongly keeled. Rostral and supra- 

 labials very long and low. Other plates of upper surface 

 of head very irregular in size and position. Symphyseal 

 plate rather small, followed by three or four pairs of larger 

 smooth plates separated from small inf ralabials by from one 



