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the arroyos and canyons west of the foot of the plains 

 clear down to the Pecos River. 



40. Uta obnata Baird and Girard. Ornate Lizard. 



This handsome little lizard has an extensive range 

 in Western Texas, but is another species that seems 

 to have been overlooked by most collectors. The ma- 

 jority of the records are from localities in the trans- 

 Pecos country. Cope first noted it as a Texas reptile 

 in his essay "On the Zoological Position of Texas," 

 but called it Uta symmetrica Baird. (Specimens from 

 the tributaries of the Medina River.) According to 

 Arthur Erwin Brown, it occurs as far north as Sey- 

 mour, Baylor County, from which point specimens 

 were received at the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens. 

 It is by no means uncommon in Llano and Burnet 

 Counties of the granite country. Bailey mentions it 

 from Ingram, Kerr County, and Mr. Louis Garni has 

 collected it near Boerne, Kendall County. 



41. SCELOPORUS COUCHI Baird. Couch's Lizard. 



This lizard must be very rare in Texas, for I have 

 been able to find only two authentic records in the 

 literature, and have never been so fortunate as to 

 find a specimen on any of my collecting trips to the 

 southern part of the State. Witmer Stone records a 

 specimen from Devil's River, Val Verde County. Dr. 

 Leonhard Stejneger states that the type specimen of 

 Lysoptychtis lateralis Cope, described in the Proceed- 

 ings of the United States National Museum, 1888, 

 page 397, is merely a specimen of this species. It is 

 from San Diego, Duval County. 



42. SCELOPORUS ORNATUS Baird. Decorated Lizard. 



A Mexican species entering the Lower Rio Grande 

 Valley of Texas. Recorded from Duval County by 

 Dr. Boulenger (Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1897, page 

 484) . Cope, in the Report of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum for 1898, page 345, lists a specimen collected by 

 J. H. Clark at "Redmond's Pass." Clark collected 



