36 



Iiaceriulse. 



to 24* femoral pores ou each side. Subdiyital lamellae uuicarinate, 

 24 to 26 under the fourth toe. 



Caudal scales truncate, upper oblique, obtusely keeled, the median 

 pair, both above and beneath, sometimes a little broader than the 

 others ; 22 to 26 scales in the fourth or fifth whorl behind the postanal 

 granules. 



Young greyish white, largely reticulated with black, and with 

 a black latei'al liand, the ground-colour apj^earing as round spots. 

 Adult grey or greyish brown, with the dorsal reticulation fading away 

 or replaced by two series of irregular spots along the back, or by 

 black cross-bars on the posterior part of the body ; the black lateral 

 baud with small white spots on the neck and small white and large 

 round blue spots on the body ; a more or less distinct white streak 

 from behind the eye to the shoulder, passing through the tympanum, 

 sometimes continued on the side of the body ; head with l)lack spots; 

 limbs with round white spots ; tail uniform, except at the base ; lower 

 parts white. Tail blue in the young. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



Table as in the preceding, minus column 8. 



Habitat. — The Karaman Province of Asia Minor up to 2000 m. 

 altitude. The types described by Werner are from the Erdshias 

 Mountains in Cappadocia. 



* 19 to 25, according to Mehely. The male from Adana has an additional 

 series of minute pores. 



