ALLIED TO LACERTA MUEALIS. 



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In shape and general proportions not unlike L. taurica, but head usually larger and 

 longer, and limbs rather longer. Head large (usually not 4 times in length to vent 

 in males), feebly depressed ; snout sometimes very obtuse, sometimes very pointed, as 

 long as the distance between the eye and the tympanum ; proeocular region rather 

 deeply concave. Neck as broad as the head, or a little broader. Hind limb reachini; 

 the collar or between the collar and the ear in the male, the elbow or the axil in the 

 female. Foot always longer than the head. Tail cylindrical, twice as long as head 

 and body or a little shorter or a little longer. 



Nostril pierced between the nasal, the postnasal, the first upper labial, and the rostral. 

 Nasals forming a short or very short suture behind the rostral*; frontonasal as long 



Text-fiarure 12. 



Upper and side views of head of male and female of Lacerta pelopomiesiaca. 

 (From r.Z.S. 1911, p, 38, text-6g. 8.) 



as broad or broader than long; frontal not longer than frontoparietals, anterior borders 



very concave, meeting at an acute angle, the shield often appearing trilobate with long 



median lobe in front, in adult male specimens ; parietals about once and a half as long 



as broad, in contact witli the upper postocular, outer border convex; occipital very 



variable in size, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, and usually broader tliau the 



interparietal, from whicli it may be separated f by a short suture formed by tlie 



jjarietals. Supraoculars in contact with the superciliaries, rarely one to three granules 



intervening between them ; the second usually a little longer than the third, both 



• In two specimens the frontonasal forms a narrow suture with the rostral; similar exceptions hate been 

 pointed out by Werner, /. c. t In C specimens out of 16. 



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