80 MR. G. A. BOULEXGER ON LIZARDS 



Body covered with large, fiat, round, subtetragonal or sabhexagonal, smooth or 

 faintly keeled granules, which are larger, often much larger, on the back than on the 

 sides ; 36 to 42 scales across the middle of the body *, 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 transverse 

 series corresponding to a ventral plate, 22 to 29 in the middle of the back corresponding 

 to the length of the head. Ventral plates in 6 longitudinal and 25 to 28 transverse 

 series; the plates of the second row from the middle line usually the broadest. 

 Prseanal plate rather large, sometimes preceded by a smaller plate or a pair of smaller 

 plates, and bordered by one or two semicircles of scales or small plates. 



Scales on upper surface of tibia rhombic, rough, tubercular or strongly keeled, as 

 large as or a little smaller or a little larger than largest dorsals. 22 to 25 lamellar 

 scales under the fourth toe. 10 to 20 femoral pores on each side f . 



Caudal scales rather broad, truncate, oblique, the upper rather strongly but obtusely 

 keeled, the lower smooth, the median pair, above and beneath, mostly broader than 

 the others ; the whorls, markedly longer and shorter alternately, well detached at the 

 sides, forming a serrated outline ; 18 to 24 scales in the fourth or lifth whorl behind 

 the postanal granules. 



Grey, brown, or olive above J, usually a little darker on the sides than on the back, 

 uniform (PI. VI. fig. 5) or with black spots or reticulations all over or restricted 

 to the sides or to the sides and the vertebral region (PL VI. figs. 3, 4) ; no dark 

 vertebral line or series of spots ; the black spots on the sides sometimes so crowded 

 as to constitute the ground-colour, the true ground-colour appearing as small light 

 spots. Spots on the tail, if present, often forming cross-bars, but never such regular 

 annuli as in L. oa'i/cejj/iala; in addition to these bars, sometimes a median series 

 of spots. Pale yellow or greenish yellow beneath §, without dark spots; blue spots 

 may be present on the outer ventrals. 



Young uniform or with small dark and light spots. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : — 



1. I'. 3. 4. 



From end of snout to vent .... (37 55 68 62 



fore limb . . 27 21 23 25 



Lengtli of head 10 14 15 10 



Width of head 11 y 10 11 



Depth of head 6 G (3 6 



Forehmb 25 20 20 23 



Hind limb 3G 2'.t 2'J 35 



Foot lb IG 15 17 



Tail — 105 — 130 



1, 2. cJ, Biokovo Mt. 3. ? , Biokovo Mt. 4. c? , Coputne Kundiiie. 



* Up to 45,fide Mchely. t Up to 2b,Jide Mehely. 



X Sometimes yellow or almost grass-green, according to Tomasini. 



§ Sometimes orange, according to Tomasini, or pearl-grey or blue, according to ilehely. 



