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/.(irerta J>iri,ii,;i Bcdriii^^a, Aivli. f. Nut. 1X80, p. 270 ; Boett;,'. Ber. Scnck. Gos. 1870-80, ji. 172. 

 I.acerta innralis, \nr. Jinfnica F. iliill. \'nrli. Nut. Ges. Basel, vii. 1882, \i. l.'^d. 

 Larerta muralis, part., Nikolsky, Her|). Hoss. ji. 130 (11105). 



? Lacerta hrris Werner, Sitzh. Ak. Wion, cxi. 1. 1002, p. 1001, and Zool. Julirb., Syst. xix. 190;?. 

 p. 'MV2, |)1. xxiii. fig. 4. 



Size and shape of head and elongation of body very different according to the 

 sex, the difference even ijreater than in L. peloponnesiaca. Head 1? to 1§ times 

 as long as broad, rather strongly depressed in the female, but little broader than dee]) 

 in the full-grown male, its depth in the tympanic region equal to the distance between 

 the anterior corner or the centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length i to times' 

 in length to vent in the female, 3^ to 3|- times in the male ; snout obtusely pointed, 

 as long as or a little shorter than postocular part of head ; clieeks moderitelv swollen 

 in the male; pileus 2 to 2^ times as long as broad. Neck as broad as the head or a 

 little narrower. Body moderately depressed. Hind limb reaching the wrist or the 

 elbow, rarely the axil, in females, the collar or between the collar and the ear in 

 males; foot longer than the head. Tail cylindrical, often a little flattened at the 

 base, twice or a little over or a little under twice as long as head and body. 



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

 rostral. Nasals forming a suture behind the rostral ; frontonasal as long as broad or 

 a little broader than long ; frontal as long as or shorter tlian its distance from the 

 end of the snout, 1^ to 2 times as long as broad, nearly as broad, behind, as the 

 major supraoculars or a little broader ; in large males the frontal sometimes trilobate 

 in front, as in L. peloponnesiaca; parietals 1| to IJ times as long as broad, usually 

 not in contact with the upper postocular, outer border convex, or oblique in front, 

 where it forms a suture with the upper temporal, but not concavely emarginate; 

 occipital constantly broader than the interparietal, sometimes broader than the frontal, 

 at least as long as the interparietal in males, usually shorter in females. Of the two 

 major supraoculars, the first is usually the longer ; fourth supraocular usually in 

 contact with the upper temporal * ; 5 to 7 superciliaries, first usually longest; suture 

 between the first and second nearly as often oblique as vertical ; a series of granules 

 between the supraoculars and the superciliaries. the series complete or the first or 

 first and second superciliaries in contact with the supraoculars. 



Rostral entering the nostril, usually largely ; two superposed postnasals f; anterior 

 loreal shorter than second. 5, rarely 4 or 6 J upper labials anterior to the subocular, 

 the lower border of which is usually much sliorter than tlie upp<r. Temporal 

 scales granular, about as large as the dorsal scales or a little larger ; a large or verv 



• 14 exceptions out of 106 cases. 



t I have come across one exceiition only, iu a male from Bamoscus, which lias a single postnasal on 

 the right side. 



t 4 iu 10 cases out of 106, 6 in .3 eases. 



