274 ANGUIDA. 
or in contact with the loreals or with the frontal, separated from 
the rostral by one or two pairs of shields ; sometimes a small azygos 
shield behind the rostral, separating the anterior pair; nasal usually in 
contact with the rostral; two superposed postnasals, followed by one 
or two loreals ; two or three small outer supraoculars; ten or eleven 
upper labials. Sides of neck granular. Lateral fold very strong, 
beginning on the neck. Nuchal shields in eight to twelve longi- 
tudinal series, keeled except in very young specimens. Dorsal 
scales in fourteen or sixteen longitudinal series, sharply keeled, of 
nearly the same size as the ventrals; forty-five to fifty-two trans- 
verse series. Ventralsin twelve longitudinal series. The adpressed 
fore limb reaches the angle of the mouth or the eye; the hind limb 
measures half to two thirds the distance from axilla to groin. Tail 
once and two thirds to twice as long as head and body, round, sub- 
quadrangular at the base; upper caudal scales sharply keeled. 
Brown or olive above, usually with irregular undulated blackish 
cross bars bordered with small yellowish spots posteriorly ; back 
sometimes irregularly spotted with blackish, and the flanks closely 
spotted with black and dotted with yellowish ; lower surfaces whitish 
olive, uniform or with longitudinal series of confluent brown spots. 
millim. nillim 
Totallength ...... 334 Fore limb ........ 30 
HOAd gore weewoey is 29 Hind limb........ 35 
Width of head .... 21 Paul 34 dees teas 220 
Body ............ 85 
Western North America to Texas ; Central America. 
a-be. 3,2, & yg. San Juan I. Vancouver's I. H.M.S. ‘Plumper,’ 
d. &. Vancouver’s I. Col. Hawkins [P.]. 
ef. od. Near Orca I, Gulf of The Lords of the Ad- 
Georgia. miralty [P.]. 
g od. Oregon. J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.}. 
h. Q. Sumass Lake J. K. Lord, Esq. bet 
-l, m-p. Ad., hgr., Monterey. 
& ye. oe 
gq. 3. California, My. Bridges [C.]. 
rt. 3. Pacific coast of N. 
America, 
u, Ad, N.W. coast of Central (Type of G. wiegmanni.) 
America. 
v. Her. Cartago, Cesta Rica. 
wo. P Haslar Collection. 
(Type of G. burnetti?.) 
12. Gerrhonotus kingii. 
Elgaria kingii, Gray, Cat. p. 54. 
Elgaria kingii, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 390. 
Gerrhonotus multifasciatus, Dum. § Bibr. v. p- 401. 
Elgaria nobilis, Baird § Gir. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1852, p. 129. 
Gerrhonotus nobilis, Baird, U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Rept. p. 11 
pl. xxv, figs. 1-8. ; 
