58 ME. Q. A. BOULENGER ON LIZAEDS 



It is a mountain-fonn, the specimens in the British Museum having been obtained 

 between the altitudes of 7000 and 8500 feet. 



The absence of the parietal foramen distinguishes this species from all other 

 members of the group. Tliere is much in common with L. chlorogaster, both as 

 regards lepidosis and coloration, but the head is much flatter, the snout shorter in 

 ])roportion to the postocular part of the head, the dorsal scales are larger, the toes 

 shorter, etc. 



The East African Lizard described by Tornier, in 1902, under the name of i. vaiie- 

 reselli and regarded by him as related to L.jacksonii, has since been pronounced by 

 Sternfeld (1912) to have nothing to do with this species, and it appears from his 

 description to belong to the ^ron^ oi L. vivipara. Head shorter and more convex, 

 collar serrated, ventrals in 6 longitudinal and 18 to 22 transverse series, 7 to 10 

 femoral pores on each side ; a vertebral series of dark spots often present. 



LaCERTA BRANDTIl. 



Lacerta brandtii De Filippi, Arch, per la Zool. ii. 18G3, p. 387, and Viagg. Pers. p. 354 (186.5) ; 

 Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 3(32, pi. xx. fig. 1 (1876); Boettg. in Radde, Faun. Flor. Casp.- 

 Geb. p. 42 (1886) ; Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. 1886, p. i'b^ ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. 

 p. 38 (1887) ; Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 139 (1905). 



Head and body feebly depressed, as in L. taurica. Head about 1^ times as long 

 as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior corner of the eye and 

 the tympanum ; snout obtuse, as long as postocular part of head ; cheeks not much 

 swollen in the male ; length of pileus twice its width. Neck a little constricted. 

 Hind limb reaching the shoulder in the male, the elbow or the axil in the female; 

 foot longer than the head. Tail cylindrical, about twice as long as head and body. 



Nostril pierced between the nasal, two postnasals, and the first upper labial. 

 Nasals forming a suture behind the rostral; frontonasal broader than long; frontal 

 1| to 2 times as long as broad, nearly as broad, behind, as the principal supraoculars, 

 not in contact with the first supraocular; parietals IJ to 1§ times as long as broad, 

 not in contact with or just touching the upper postocular, the outer border straight 

 or slightly concave ; occipital small, | to ^ the length of the interparietal, which is 

 equally broad or a little broader. The two major supraoculars, of which the first 

 is the longer, separated from the superciliaries by a complete series of granules, 

 or the first in contact with the first or first and second superciliaries ; the fourth 

 supraocular usually in contact with the first upper temporal ; 6 or 7 superciliaries, 

 first usually longest, the suture between the first and second more or less oblique. 



Kostral touching or nearly touching the nostril; two superposed postnasals; anterior 

 loreal not more than half as long as second. 5 upper labials anterior to the 

 subocular *, the lower border of which is much shorter than the upper. Temporal 



* " Nahezu constant," Boettger. 



