02 ME. G. A. BOULENGEE ON LIZAEDS 



large masseteric shield * ; tympanic shield distinct; a large upper temporal, followed 

 bv a row of very small shields or mere granules. 



Pterygoid teeth usually present. 



18 to 24 scales and granules in a straight line between the symphysis of the chin- 

 shields and the median collar-plate; gular fold indistinct. Collar with even or very 

 feebly serrated edge, composed of 9 to 13 plates, exceptionally 7. 



Scales on body juxtaposed, oval or hexagonal, keeled, the keel usually stronger in 

 males than in females, rather smaller on the sides than on the back ; minute granules 

 in the interstitial skin f ; 49 to 62 scales (usually 50 to 58) across the middle of the 

 body, 3 or 4 transverse series, on the sides, corresponding to a ventral plate, 33 to 55, 

 in the middle of the back, corresponding to the length of the head. Ventral plates 

 in 6 longitudinal series, or if in 8 J the outer very small ; all broader than long, the 

 median pair narrowest, the other two nearly equal in width ; 24 to 27 transverse series 

 in males, 26 to 29 in females. 



Preeanal plate large, bordered by one or two semicircles of small plates. 



Scales on upper surface of tibia smaller than dorsals, with a strong keel, often with 

 small tubercles or short secondary keels in addition. 27 to 35 lamellar scales under the 

 fourth toe, usually 29 to 32. 16 to 24 femoral pores on each side, usually 18 to 21. 



Upper caudal scales rather narrow, straight or slightly oblique, strongly keeled, 

 the keel sometimes accompanied by a groove on each side §, truncate or very obtusely 

 pointed behind, mostly with a distinct apical sensory pit; the whorls more or less 

 unequal in length, sometimes very slightly; 24 to 34 scales in the fourth or iifth whorl 

 behind the postanal granules. 



Grey or pale brown above, the back uniform or scantily dotted or spotted with 

 blackish, occasionally with larger spots having a tendency to arrange themselves in 

 transverse series ; upper surface of head without spots ; a black lateral band, passing 

 through the eye, sometimes well-defined by a white streak above and beneath, to 

 above the shoulder, where its lower limit shades off into the lighter colour of the 

 Hanks and its upper border is festooned or crenulate ; white dots or round white spots 

 on the black of the sides ; sides sometimes only a little darker than the back, with 

 black and white ocelli; limbs with a dark network, often enclosing round white spots; 

 tail uniform or with small dark spots irregularly disposed. Lower parts white, throat 

 of male sometimes bluish, without spots, except, in males, a series of rather distant 

 blue black-edged spots along each side of the belly. 



* Only one exception, in a female from Damascus, in which the shield is hardly distinct on the right side. 



t As first pointed out; hy Bedriaga, these accessory granules are to be found in nearly all species of 

 Lacerta, when the skin is distended, and they are more distinct still in L. jaijukari, not to mention L. gnlloti. 



X In two male specimens from Damascus ; these outer plates about half the width of those of the third 

 series from the middle line. 



§ As in L. danfordii, var. </rceca. 



