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separated by darker ones. The upper surfaces of the limbs 

 are yellowish brown or olive, usually with longitudinal dark 

 and light streaks. The tail rarely is faintly cross-barred 

 above with brown. 



Females and young males are similarly colored, and do 

 not have more evident dorsal dark spots or light dorso- 

 lateral lines. 



Length to anus 82 88 103 105 105 115 



Length of tail 130 136 14-7 



Snout to car 19 20 23 24- 25 26 



Width of head 17 18 22 24 25 26 



Snout to back of 



interparietal \7 l / 2 18 19J4 20 21 22 



Fore limb 4-0 4-0 4-6 47 45 51 



Hind limb 64 61 74 68 77 76 



Base of fifth to end of 



fourth toe 25 23 27 23 27 27 



Distribution. Santa Catalina Island, Gulf of California, 

 Mexico. 



Remarks. This species resembles S. zosteromus more 

 closely than it does S. rufidorsum and S. monserratensis, to 

 all of which it is closely allied. Its femoral pores average 

 the same in number as in S. zosteromus, and, like that species, 

 adult males have no distinct dorsal or dorsolateral light 

 streaks. It shares with S. zosteromus and S. monserratensis 

 the more or less parallel dark streaks on the lateral scales 

 which are absent in S. rufidorsum. It has not the numerous 

 light blue dorsal spots of S. monserratensis. 



Habits. Like its immediate relatives, this species lives 

 on the ground in brushy situations. 



