ALLIED TO LACERTA MUEALIS. 67 



tlie presence of a large masseteric shield, the uumber of ventral plates and of femoral 

 pores, and the pattern of markings are the most striking characters distinguishing the 

 former from the latter, which is one of the most sharply defined species of the genus 

 Lacerta. Pnit I do not su-jgest a derivation of L. jaijukari from L. Icevis; I imagine 

 these two species to have been independently evolved out of forms closely related to 

 L. braniltii, nearly all the characters of which appear to support such an assumption. 



Lacerta DAXFORDII. 



Zootoca danforiU Giiiith. Proc. Zool. Soc. 187(j, p. 818, tig. 



/>u<;?»-<a (iaji/on^i Bed liaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1879, p. 30 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, 



p. 7-11 ; Bediiaga, Abli. Sonck. Ges. xiv. 188(5, p. 250 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 37, pi. i. 



fig. 2 (1887) ; Boettg. Sitzb. Ak. B.mI. 1888, p. ]t;3; Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, exi. i. 1902, 



p. 1090, Zool. Anz. xxvii. 1901. p. 2'ib, and Zool. Jalirb., Svst. xix. 1904, p. 333, pis. xxiii. 



fig. 3, and xxiv. figs. 7, 11 ; Mehely, Ann. Mus. Hung. xii. 1909, p. 452, fig., pis. xiii. 



figs. 4, 5, and xiv. figs. 5-8. 

 Lacerta oxycephala, vars. modeKta, mantlata, part., Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1881, p. 80. 

 Lacerta gra;ca Bedriaga, Abli. Senck. Ges. xiv. 188(5, p. 290 ; Werner, Wiss. Mitth. Bosn. Herzeg. 



vi. 1899, p. 833, and Zool. Anz. xxvii. 1904, p. 25(5 ; Mehely, t. c. p. 4G3, pis. xiii. figs. 6, 7, 



and XV. figs. 1-4 ; Schreib. Herji. Eur. ed. 2, p. 403 (1912). 

 Lacerta anatolira Werner, Anz. Ak. Wien, 1900, p. 269, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxi. i. 1902, p. 1083, 



]>]. iii., Zool. Jalirb., Syst. xix. 1903, p. 331, pi. xxiv. figs. 5, 12, 14, and Zool. Anz. xxvii. 



1904, p. 259 ; Mehely, t. c. p. 442, pis. xiii. figs. 1-3, and xiv. figs. 1-4. 

 Lacerta oertzeni Wernej-, Zool. Anz. xxvii. 1904, p. 258; Schreib. op. cit. p. 402. 



The following description is drawn up exclusively from the type-specimens, from 

 Zebil Bulghar Dagh, Ciliciaa Taurus. 



Head and body rather strongly depressed, but less than in L. oxycephala, more. 

 as in some specimens of the typical L. muralis. Head If to a little over 1^ times as 

 long as broad, its depth, in the tympanic region, equal to the distance between the 

 anterior corner or the centre of the eye and the anterior border of the tympanum ; 

 snout obtusely pointed, as long as or a little shorter than postocular part of head ; 

 cheeks not much swollen in the male ; length of pileus 2 to 2^^ times its width. Neck 

 at least as broad as head. Hind limb reaching the shoulder or the collar in the mab , 

 the axil in the female; foot as long as the head or a little longer (not more than 

 once and one-third). Tail cylindrical, nearly twice or more than twice as long 

 as head and body. 



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

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

 or, more often, broader than long, 2 to 3 times as long as the suture between the 

 priefrontals. Frontal H to If times as long as broad, as long as its distance from 

 the rostral or the end of the snout, as broad as or a little narrower, behind, than the 



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