. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCt>DILIAN!S, LIZAKDS, AND SNAKES. 545 Mciliuui; limbs loDger, hiiul limbs upjiressed, reachiug shoulder; tail lou;^', twice body; oue row of supraoiulars; oue parietal, above light browu with t\yo rows of very large pale-edged maroon spots A', picta Cope. Largest; limbs short, hind limb appressed, overlapping forefoot; tail equal body plus head to front of eye; two rows of sui>raoculars; two parietals on each side; above light brow
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. CROCt>DILIAN!S, LIZAKDS, AND SNAKES. 545 Mciliuui; limbs loDger, hiiul limbs upjiressed, reachiug shoulder; tail lou;^', twice body; oue row of supraoiulars; oue parietal, above light browu with t\yo rows of very large pale-edged maroon spots A', picta Cope. Largest; limbs short, hind limb appressed, overlapping forefoot; tail equal body plus head to front of eye; two rows of sui>raoculars; two parietals on each side; above light brown with black, coarse vermiculations ...A', riveraiana Cope, Neither of tlie above speeies has been fouud thus far outside of the limits of the State of California. XANTUSIA VIGILIS Baird. XaiilKnia riiiiHn Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., , p. 255.—KouLEXciKU, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., II 1885, p. 327. The hind leg extended twice forward reaches to the first gular fold, and is contained about two and three-fourth times in head and body, the head four and one-half times; the hind foot from heel nearly six times. The claws are all very small; the digits covered beneath by a series of transverse and imbricating plates. The color above generally is a dull brownish yellow varied with small blackish spots on single tubercles. The young specimens exhibit a yel- lowish vermiculation on a brown ground distinctly seen on the sides of body, neck, and head. There are two yellowish X3aral- lel lilies from tlie supraoculars down the back of the neck be- coming finally lost, and between these on the back of the neck i'lg. 97. , 1 • /. 1 XANTUSIA VIGILIS Baiud. are two more, making four yel- low lines on the nape. The cat. no. 19J, under parts are whitish. In this species the head is short and covered above by a small num- ber of very large plates. It is bounded behind by a constriction which borders the posterior extremity of the large occipital plates, i)asses through the e
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