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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE:S. 



The type of this form 'came from Cerros Island. 



List of specimens of Verticaria hyperythra beldingi. 



Cal. Acad. 

 Sci. No. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



639 

 680 

 681 



Magdalena Island, L. C. 



Mar., 1889 

 Mar. 11, 1889 



W. E. Bryant. 



Verticaria sericea, new species, Plate xii. 



Diagnosis. — Hind limb relatively much longer, and 

 scales on collar, especially on its edge, much smaller, 

 than in V. hyperythra and V. hyperythra beldingi. A 

 single median dorsal line, as light distinct and well de- 

 fined as the lateral ones, instead of two faint brownish 

 lines as in V. hyperythra and V. hyperythra beldingi. 



Type. — Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 435, San Jose Island, 

 Gulf of California, Walter E. Bryant, April, 1892. 



Description of the Type. — The nostrils are in the large 

 anterior nasal plates, which meet on top of the snout. 

 The posterior nasal forms sutures with the anterior nasal, 

 first and second labials, loreal, prefrontal, and frontona- 

 sal plates. The loreal is in contact with the second third 

 and fourth labials, first subocular, preocular, first super- 

 ciliary, first supraocular, prefrontal, and posterior nasal. 

 There are three supraoculars, the first is in contact with 

 the first and second superciliaries, loreal, prefrontal, fron- 

 tal, and second supraocular; the second is in contact 

 with the frontal; the third is separated from the frontal 

 and the frontoparietal by a series of granules. The in- 

 terparietal is very narrow. There is a series of occipital 

 plates. There are five superior and six inferior labials to 

 below the middle of the eye. The ear opening is not 



