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line; that this light line is the superciliary streak of Mehely is shown by its condition 

 in one male specimen from Zorleni, Roumania, in which, after having followed the 

 outer border of the occiput, it suddenly turns at an angle towards the middle of the 

 nape, as is also the case in certain specimens of the typical form ; the dark vertebral 

 band is sometimes divided by a continuous or interrupted lifi;ht median streak; the 

 sides show two or three lateral series of black and wliite ocellar spots, of which the 

 upper are the largest, as in the typical form. Two specimens from Bucarest 

 correspond to Andrzt-jowski's L. chersonensis* , the analogue of the so-called var. rubra 

 of the typical form, the back between the upper lateral series of ocelli being uniform 

 reddish brown, a little darker in the middle ; vestiges of the superciliary light streak 

 are visible on the nape, and preserve tlieir primitive course as a series of whitish dots 

 above the lateral ocelli (PI. II. fig. I), thus showing the displacement described 

 above to be in relation with the black vertebral spots. The ground-colour is grey or 

 brown above in females, green in males, all over or except on the head and vertebral 

 band f . Belly greenish in males, profusely speckled with black, yellowish in females, 

 uniform or scantily speckled with black. 



The markings of the young vary as much as those of the adult, and the light 

 vertebral streak is likewise exceptional. Some young are highly suggestive, at first 

 glance, of striated specimens of L. mtiralis, vars. campestris and Jiamana ; but what 

 one would take to represent the light "dorsal" streaks of Mehely are in reality the 

 " superciliaries," which extend likewise along the upper surface of the tail. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : — 



1. 2. y. 4. 5. 



From end of snout to vent . . 80 7-1 7G 7i> (>9 



„ „ „ fore limb. 151 28 27 25 22 



Length of head 20 18 I'J lo L> 



Width of liea.l 14 12 13 11 10 



Depth of bead 12 U 12 10 9 



Fore limb 25 2-t 24 23 20 



Hind limb 30 33 35 29 27 



Foot 19 18 17 IG 15 



Tail — 115 130 115 110 



1,2. cJ , Kiew. 3. ^J, Zorleni. 4. ?, Zorleni. 5. ?, St. George. 



* " Corpus fuscum : supra unicolor immaculatum, ad utriiiijue latus maculis irregularibus nigris versus 

 abdomen decrescentibus, lineisque albidis iiiterruptis tribua pictuiu." The name is therefore uot a strict 

 synonym of Kessler's var. orientalis, as believed by Bedriaga. 



t Kirit/.escu confirms for this variety Uedriaga's observation on the var. do»u»sis that the green colour of 

 the mules is not seasonal, as in the typical form, but is pn served throughout the year. ISome male specimens 

 examined by him have lost all traces of the stripes and ocelli, and are uniform green or green speckled with 

 black, such specimens corresponding to the so-called varieties concolor and^)U)i<-(a(a of L. liiidit. 



