42 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON LIZARDS 



1881, p. 740 ; Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. 188G, p. 320, pi.—, fig. 28; 'Bouleng. Caf. 



Liz. iii. p. 26 (1887) ; AVerner, Wiss. Mitth. Bosn. Herzeg. vi. 1899, p. 833 ; Kiritzescu, 



Bui. Soc. Sc. Bucarest, x. 1901, p. 314; Mehely, Allat. Koslem. i. 1902, p. 58; Lehrs, Zool. 



Anz. 1902, p. 231 ; Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 127 (1905); Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, 



p. 557, pi. XXX.; Schreib. Herp. Eur. ed. 2, p. 439 (1912). 

 Lacevta taurica, part., Duin. & Bibr. Erp. Greu. v. p. 225 (1839) ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 419 



(1875). 

 Podarcis taurica Bouap. Icon. Faun. Ital., An£. (1841). 

 Xootoca taurU-a, part., Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 29 (1845). 

 Fodarcis taurica, part., De Betta, Rett. Anf. Grec. p. 35 (1868). 

 Lacerta muralis neapolitana, part., Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1881, p. 99, and Abh. Senck. 



Ges. xiv. 1886, p. 220. 

 Lacerta peloponiiesiara (non Bibr.) Werner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xliv. 1894, p. 228, and 



Zool. Anz. 1895, p. 470. 

 Lacerta muralis (non Laur.) Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1889, p. 270. 

 Lacerta ionica Lehrs, Zool. Anz. 1902, p. 232 ; Schreib. op. cit. ed. 2, p. 436. 



Head rather small, 4 to 4j times in length to vent in males, 4| to 4§ times in 

 females, as deep as broad or not much broader than deep, 1^ to 1§ times as long as 

 broad, exceptionally If times*; occipital region convex; the depth of the head, in 

 the tympanic region, equal to or a little greater than the distance between the anterior 

 corner of the eye and the anterior border of the tympanum ; snout obtusely pointed, 

 with straight or slightly convex upper protile, as long as the distance between the eye 

 and the tympanum. Neck as broad as the head, or a little narrower or a little 

 broader. Body feebly or moderately depressed. Hind limb reaching the axil, the 

 shoulder, or the collar in males, the wrist or the elbow of the adpressed fore limb in 

 females; foot as long as the head or a little longer (not more than Ij times). Tail 

 cylindrical, 1^ to slightly over 2 times the length of head and body. 



Nostril pierced between the nasal, a postnasal, the tirst upper labial, and nearly 

 always the rostral. Nasals forming a short suture behind the rostral f ; frontonasal 

 much broader than long J ; frontal as long as or shorter than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, 1^ to If times as long as broad, nearly as broad, behind, as the major 

 supraoculars ; parietals 1 j to 1^ times as long as broad, with straight or convex outer 

 border, nearly always in contact with the upper postocular § ; occipital very variable 

 in shape, usually shorter than the interparietal ||, sometimes fused with it or separated 

 by a small shield. Major supraoculars equal or first a little the longer ; 5 or 6 



* III a male from Nision, Greece. 



t lu a female from Nision, Greece, the frontonasal forms a suture with the rostral ; in a male from 

 Cephalonia the nasal is in contact with the anterior loreal, above the postnasal. 

 J Broken up into four shields in a female from Bazias. 

 § Except in a male from Budapest-Franzstadt. 

 11 As loug as the interparietal in a few specimens from Greece and the Ionian Islands. 



