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any size) is more than twice the length of the body and is covered with 

 larger, coarser scales. 



Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Linnaeus) 

 Race Runner; Six-Lined Lizard 



Lacerta sexlineata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., Vol. I, p. 364, 1766. 



Cnemidophorus sexlineatus — Cope, Rept. U.S.N.M., p. 597, 1898 (Plateau 

 Creek, near Eagalite, Colo.). 



Colorado specimens. — Colorado State Historical and Natural History 

 Museum: Denver, May 21, 1900 (160 mm.), H. G. Smith; Grand Junction, Sep- 

 tember 16, 1904 (4 specimens, 105-130 mm.), H. G. Smith; Wray, May 31, 1905 

 (175 mm.), H. G. Smith; Colorado Museum of Natural History: Ponia, near 

 Trinidad, August, 1910 (2 specimens, 90 and 120 mm.), L. J. Hersey; State 

 Teachers' College Museum: Corrizo Creek, Las Animas County, and Greeley, 

 A. E. Beardsley. 



Cnemidophorus gularis Baird and Girard 

 Spotted Race Runner 



Cnemidophorus gularis Baird and Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 128, 

 1852. 



Cnemidophorus gularis — Caey, N. Am. Fauna, No. a, p. 27, 191 1 (Grand 

 Valley, McElmo and Hotchkiss, Colo.). 



Colorado specimens.— Reported by Cary, I.e., from Golden, Colo. 



Cnemidophorus tessellatus (Say) 

 Tessellated Lizard 

 Ameiva lessellata Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mis., Vol. II, p. 50, 1823 (Canyon 

 of Arkansas, Colo.). 



Cnemidophorus tigris — Cary, N. Am. Fauna, No. $3, p. 26, 191 1 (Plateau 

 Creek and McElmo, Colo.). 



Colorado specimens. — Colorado Stale Historical and Natural History 

 Museum: Grand Junction, May 17, 1906 (2 specimens, 260 and 270 mm.), W. C. 

 Ferril. 



Family Scincidae 

 The Skinks 

 A very large family of lizards of cosmopolitan distribution. Two 

 genera are known from the United States, one of which, Eumeces, is 

 represented in the Colorado fauna. 



