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snout, or between these two points. Snout usually 

 shorter and less pointed than in the typical form. 

 Skin smooth or more or less warty ; glandular lateral 

 fold more or less prominent, frequently as broad as 

 the upper eyelid. 



Specimens from the south of France, the Spanish 

 Peninsula, and North Africa, vary much in colour — 

 olive, dull green, bronzy-brown, or bright green above, 

 spotted or speckled with dark olive or blackish, with 

 or without a light vertebral stripe ; the hinder side 

 of the thighs whitish or pale olive, marbled or verrni- 

 culate with blackish ; belly white, uniform or with 

 small blackish spots. 



German specimens are less variable. In the normal 

 condition the ground colour of the upper parts is olive 

 or bronzy-olive, with the vertebral stripe, the fore 

 limbs, and the sides of the head and body pale green 

 or pale olive. But of course, through the play of the 

 chromatophores, the same individual may pass suc- 

 cessively from a very light to a very dark hue, ac- 

 cording to its being placed in very dry or very moist 

 surroundings. In specimens long kept in water 

 the colour turns to a very dark bronze-olive, almost 

 blackish, in which case the normally darker markings 

 may assume a brighter greenish tint ; but if these mark- 

 ings are examined with a magnifying glass, they Eire 

 seen to be black beautifully powdered with gold. The 

 vertebral stripe varies considerably in width, and may 

 be absent altogether. The glandular lateral folds are 

 usually not conspicuously lighter coloured, though 

 sometimes metallic bronzy. The spots on the back 

 and flanks are more or less numerous, but these 

 markings are of a blackish-olive or bronzy-brown, and 

 never of an intense black as in the typical form. 

 The dorsal spots sometimes form pretty regular longi- 

 tudinal series, but are never confluent into longitudinal 

 bands. A dark canthal and supra-temporal streak is 

 usually present, and sometimes expands into a regular 

 temporal spot. The edge of the upper lip is either 



