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the tail to a considerable extent. The inferior region, from the chin 

 to the tip of the tail, is uniform yellowish-brown. The abdominal 

 shields exhibiting a clouded streak along their medial line. 



Log. — Upper California, now the State of that name. 



Plate XXIII, fig. 1, represents Elgaria scincicauda, size of life. 



Pig. 2, is a view of the inferior region of the body and tail. 



Fig. 3, represents the head, seen from above. 



Fig. 4, is a front view of the head. 



Fig. 5, exhibits the left hand, from above. 



Fig. 6, the left foot, from above also. 



Fig. 7, a group of scales from the dorsal region. 



Fig. 8, is a portion of the granular zone, taken on the middle region. 



Fig. 9, abdominal shields, from the middle region of the abdomen. 



Figs. 5-9, are somewhat magnified. 



3. Elgaria grandis, B. & G. 



(Plate XXII, figs. 1-9.) 



Char. spec. — Sqiiamis dorsualibus in quinquaginta series transversalee 

 et quatuordechn longitadinales dispositls. Scutis postnasalihus quatuor, 

 inaequalihus, Scutellis praeanalihm quam abdominalibus minoribus, 

 Cauda longissima, duplam fere corporis et capitis longitudimm attin- 

 gente. Supra oUvaceo-fascescente, cum undecim fasciis fuscis trans col- 

 lum et tergum, singulis fasciis imam ta7itum seriem squamarum operi- 

 entihus, quarum apices sunt alhi coloris ; infra xmicolori. 



Spec. Char. — Dorsal scales disposed upon fifty transverse and four- 

 teen longitudinal series. Four unequal postnasal plates. Preanal 

 shields smaller than the abdominal ones. Tail very long, nearly 

 twice the length of the body and head combined. Above brownish- 

 olive, with eleven brown bands across the neck and back, covering 

 one row of scales, which are tipped with white. Beneath unicolor. 



^Y"^.— Elgaria grandis, B. & G. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. VI, 1852, 176. 



