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50. SCELOPORUS VARIABILIS Wiegmann. Variable Lizard. 



Southwestern Texas from Bandera, Bexar and 

 Nueces Counties south to the Rio Grande. Mr. 

 Mitchell collected several specimens in the neighbor- 

 hood of Oakville, Live Oak County, and writes that 

 it makes it home among Opuntia plants in that local- 

 ity. Mr. Louis Garni sent me an interesting series 

 from San Antonio. He states that it is rather com- 

 mon on the grounds of St. Louis College. 



This lizard, the Sceloportis marmoratus and SceU 

 oportis delicatissimus of Hallowell, names applied to 

 specimens of the different sexes, is also the species 

 misnamed Sceloportis scalaris Wiegmann by Cope, 

 Yarrow and A. E. Brown. Cope afterward discov- 

 ered his error and corrected it in the synonymy of 

 Sceloporus variabilis on page 398 of "The Crocodil- 

 iars, Lizards and Snakes of North America." Brown 

 evidently overlooked this correction and five years 

 later listed Sceloportis scalaris as a Texas reptile. The 

 last named species inhabits Mexico and may possibly 

 enter Texas in the trans-Pecos region. It has been 

 collected in the State of Chihuahua, only about thirty 

 miles south of El Paso. 



51. Phrynosoma douglassi hernandesi Girard. 



Hernandez's Homed Lizard. 



Bailey records a single specimen from the Guada- 

 lupe Mountains, El Paso County. This seems to be 

 the first that has been collected in the State in many 

 years. The National Museum has three specimens 

 labeled Pecos River, Texas, Capt. John Pope. 



52. Phrynosoma douglassii ornatissium Girard. 



Painted Horned Lizard. 



No. 205, United States National Museum collection, 

 labeled "Pecos River and Rio Grande, Major Em- 

 ory," is the only Texas record that I have been able 

 to find for this variety. 



