34 Lacertidie. 



from the tyin}iaiiuiu to aliove the tliigh, the l)aii(l with traces of round 

 blue spots ; limbs with round liyht spots. Lower parts white. 



A specimen in the Genoa Museum is golden above, with 6 longitudinal 

 series of partly confluent small jjale blue spots, and blackish vertical 

 bars between the two outer series of blue spots. 



Measuri'ments (in niilliuietres) : 



<?. 

 From end of snout to vent .... 95 



,, ,, ,, fore limb ... 40 



Length of head . . . . . .23 



Width of head 14 



Depth of head . . . . . .12 



Fore limb 32 



Hind limb 55 



Foot 29 



Tail 195 



The type s[)ecimen, which I have examined in the Berlin Museum, 

 is from Brava, Somaliland. I have seen a second specimen, also from 

 Brava, preserved in the Genoa Museum. A male specimen obtained 

 at Berbera, Somaliland, by Mr. E. Lort Phillips in 1898, was 

 presented by him to the British Museum. 



8. LATASTIA CAPPADOCICA. 



Lacerta cappadocica, Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxi, 1902, p. 1086, 



id Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xix, 1903, p. 232, pi. xxiii, tigs. I, 2, and pi. 

 xxiv, figs. 6, 9, 13 ; Steind. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xx, 1905, p. 308. 



Apafhya cappadocica, Mi'hely, Teruu'sz. KOslon, Budapest, Ixxxv, 

 1907, p. 20, and Ann. Mus. Hung, vii, 190!», p. 431, pi. xi, figs. 1, 2, 

 4-7, and pi. xii, figs. 1-7. 



Lataslmcappadocica, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xx, 1907, p. 45. 



Body rather depressed. Head much depressed, flat above, about 

 1^ times as long as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the 

 centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length 3^: to a little over 4 

 times in length to vent ; snout narrow, obtusely pointed, as long as 

 postocular part of head ; cheeks rather swollen in the males. Pdeus 

 2^ to 2.\ times as long as broad. Neck as broad as or Ijroader than 

 the head. Hind limb reaching the shoulder or the collar in males,* 

 the axil in females ; foot a little longer than the head ; toes slender, 

 feebly compressed. Tail twice or a little over twicef as long as head 

 and body, tapering from the base, very slender posteriorly. 



* Or to between the collar and the ear, according to Meliely. 

 t Up to 2; times, according;- to Mt^liely. 



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