18 LACERTAD A. 
SQUAMATA. 
(SAURIA.) LACERTAD/. 
Genus, Lacerta. Linn. 
Generic Character.—Throat with a distinct collar. Nostrils situated towards 
the outer and inferior margin of the nasal scuta. An osseous superorbital 
lamina. Temples covered with scuta. Scales of the back, orbiculo-polygonal, 
slightly carinated. Palate toothed. 
SAND LIZARD. 
Lacerta agilis. Linn. 
2 Lacertus terrestris anguiformis, Muxrerr, Pinax, p. 161. Ray, Syn. Quad. 
p. 264. 
Lacerta agilis, Linn. Fn. Suec. 284.— I, cura Rerz. 289.—Syst. Nat. I. 
p. 363, n. 15. Mutt. Zool. Dan. Prod. p. 36, n. 299. 
Merr. Syst. Amph. p. 66, sp. 13. C. L. Bonar, Faun. 
Ital. cum Icon. 
