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clear to me that the discrepancies mentioned not could be due to difference 

 in sex, but rather, as Werner believes, to constitute a specifical distinction. 

 He states that be bas found males as well as females displaying both 

 colour varieties. In addition to the difference in pattern, the bind limbs 

 are shorter in L. mivarti ("the female' 1 ) than in L. mehelyi ("the male''); 

 in the former they reacb hardly the elbow, in the latter they reach 

 fully in front of the Shoulder. In L. mivarti I counted 35, in L. mehelyi 

 38 lamellse under the fourth toe. In addition to this the auricular 

 lobules are, as stated by Werner, rather distinct in L. mivarti, but there 

 are no such to be detected in L. mehelyi. On the other band, I am 

 not able to find any difference between the proportions of the length 

 and breadth of the coalesced fronto-interparietal, spoken of by Werner. 

 In both specimens the 5 th upper labial is below the centre of the eye. 



Lygosoma mülleri Schleg. 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. III, p. 338. 



This specimen agrees completcly with the descriptions of L. mülleri, 

 except in having 32 scales round the body in stead of 34, and in the 

 absence of the dark lateral band. With regard to the colour it corresponds 

 in every detail with the figure of L. pratti Blgr., P. Z. S. 1903, vol. 2 7 

 p. 128, pl. 13, fig. 1. In other points as well it agrees with this one ; 

 the only difference is the numher of the scales which are arranged in 

 36 rows in L. pratti. Froni a third species, L. lorice Blgr., Ann. mus. 

 Civ. (2), Vol. 18, p. 698, pl. 7, fig. 1, nearly allied to the last mentioned, 

 it differs only with regard to the prsefrontals, being separated in my 

 specimen, narrowly meeting in L. lorice. This Single small difference 

 cannot be considered as a specific one, and if L. mülleri, L. pratti and 

 L. lorice are to be regarded as distinct species, my specimen ought to 

 be named L. lorice Blgr. As, however, all the three species mentioned 

 correspond with each other in such a high degree that I can, without 

 hesitation, refer it to any of them, I do not believe them to be speci- 

 fically distinguishable. In such a case L. mülleri is the oldest name. 

 Several remarks by different autbors concerning the Variation of L. mülleri 

 with regard to the number of the scales, the colour, and the prrefrontals 

 speak also for this opinion. For instances, in Termes Fuzetek Mehelt 

 mentions a specimen of L. mülleri with 32 scales and the prrefrontals 

 meeting in a point, thus with the characteristics of L. lorice, and in 



