450 4. ANGUID& 



ing's specimen was secured in the Laguna or Victoria Moun- 

 tains, not at La Paz. 



Remarks. At an altitude of 5,400 feet in the Sierra 

 Laguna, Mr. Slevin found one of these lizards under a dead 

 yucca stalk, three under fallen pine trees, and two running 

 about in the grass of a mountain meadow. 



92. Gerrhonotus scincicauda scincicauda (Skilton) 



WESTERN ALLIGATOR LIZARD 



Plate 40 



? Gerrhonotus Wiegmannii GRAY, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1845, ? 54> (type 



locality, Mexico?); O'SHAUGHNESSY, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 



4, Vol. XII, 1873, p. 46. 

 Tropidolepis scincicauda SKILTON, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, Ser. 2, Vol. 



VII, 1849, p. 202, pi. at p. 312, figs. 1-3 (type locality, Dalles of 

 the Columbia). 

 Elgaria scincicauda BAIRD & GIRARD, Stansbury's Exped. Gt. Salt Lake, 



!853> p. 348, pi. IV, figs. 1-3; GIRARD, U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp., 



p. 210, pi. XXIII, figs. 1-9. 

 Elgaria grandis BAIRD & GIRARD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. VI, 



1852, p. 176 (type locality, Oregon); GIRARD, U. S. Explor. Exped., 



Herp., p. 212, pi. XXII, figs. 1-8; LORD, Naturalist Vancouver 



Island, Vol. II, 1866, p. 307. 

 Gerrhonotus multicarinatus COOPER, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, 



pp. 64, 70; COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 46 (part); 



YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 47 (part); COPE, 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, pp. 23, 27 (?); TOWNSEND, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 10, 1887, p. 238 (?); COPE, Report U. S. Nat. 



Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 520, fig. 93 (part). 

 Gerrhonotus grandis COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, P- 4 6 J 



YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 47 (part). 

 Gerrhonotus scincicaudus COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 47 



(part); YARROW & HEKSHAW, Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers for 



1878, Surv. W. looth Merid., Appendix NN, 1878, p. 219 (part); 



YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 48 (part); TOWN- 



SEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 10, 1887, p. 238 (?). 

 Gerrhonotus caruleus BOULENGER, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1885, 



p. 273 (part). 



