152 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE 
3. The complete series of granules between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries.— 
Again a worthless specific character, occurring more or less frequently in the typical 
LL. muralis and most of its varieties. Besides, Méhely omits to state that, as he him- 
self admits higher up (1909, p. 478), this is only “‘ usually” the case in L, bedriage. 
1 cannot understand how such characters, which are known to break down in almost 
every variety, can be adduced in favour of specific distinction. 
4, The vertical direction of the suture between the first and second supraciliaries.— 
Oblique, even strongly so, on one side or on both sides in several specimens (Brit. Mus. 
and Bedriaga Coll.) of L. bedriage, vertical on one side in a male of L. insulanica. 
The character is subject to frequent exceptions in the typical L. muralis, in which the 
said suture is usually oblique (see above, p. 139). 
5. The short freno-ocular (=second loreal).—May be shorter, in proportion to its 
distance from the nostril, in LZ. énsulanica than in L. bedriage. In two specimens 
(6 2) of the latter, I find it as long as its distance from the rostral. Compare also 
fig. 8a on my pl. xxviii. (Tr. 1905) with side views of heads of other varieties on 
the same plate. 
6. The homogeneous temporal scutellation, by which expression is meant that a 
masseteric disk is absent.— Higher up (1909, p. 479) Mchely admits that it is sometimes 
present, although very small. A large male from Bastelica, in the Bedriaga Collection, 
the head of which is here figured (text-fig. 4 A) alongside with that of a male of the 
var. tnsulanica, from Pianosa, in the same collection (text-fig. 4 B), shows how far these 
statements are to be depended upon when submitted to the test of even a but moderately 
large series of specimens. 
Text-fig. 4. 

A. Var. bedriage; B. Var. insulanica. From photographs. 
7. The very distinct supratemporal.—-This is not constant (see Tr. 1905, p. 412), 
and besides the shield is twice as large in a male ZL. insulanica as in a female 
(one of the types) of JL. bedriage. I request a comparison of figs. 7 & 9 of 
pl. xxviii. Tr. 1905 *. 
8. The nearly smooth wpper caudal scales and the smooth tibial and dorsal seales.— 
The caudal scales are often very distinctly keeled in L. bedriage and L. sardoa, 
* See also Mchely’s own figure of the head of JZ. bedriaga in Ann. Mus. Hung. iii. 1905, p. 301, which 
does not agree with his later definition of the Archwolacerte, op. cit. vil, 1909, p. 424, 


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