VARIETIES OF THE WALL-LIZARD. 173 
instead of 22 to 29, usually 24 to 26, as well as by an average larger size, I think it 
may perhaps be kept distinct from that widely distributed form. 
According to Werner, the Lissa Lizard is never green, does not even show a trace of 
green. Upper parts grey or coffee-colour, the dorsal region unspotted or with dark 
brown spots or marblings, sometimes separated from the much spotted lateral region 
by a light streak; a dark vertebral streak, formed of a series of spots, which does not 
begin behind the occiput, but further back, about the middle of the body. In males 
the belly is red, without spots, except on the sides, which bear large blue spots on the 
outer row of ventral shields; in females it is white. 
This description applies also to the lizards from Lagosta, except that the upper 
parts may be green, that some among them have the dark vertebral streak originating 
on the nape, and that others have the markings very indistinct. The blue spots on the 
sides of the belly may occupy the whole outer series of shields, forming a continuous 
broad band. 
Male specimens, stated to be from Lissa, which I received alive through the great 
kindness of M. G. de Southoff, of Florence, had the nape and the anterior part of the 
back light green, the upper surface of the head, the sides, the limbs, and the tail 
brown ; two or three blue ocelli above the shoulder; large blue spots on the outer row 
of ventrals, in one specimen forming a continuous band; throat and belly white, or 
yellow tinged with orange. 
I have examined the following 14 specimens, ali except the fifth and sixth 
(M. de Southoff) from Dr. Werner’s Collection :— 
Te 2. 3. 4, 5. 6. te 
ISSAeE ty Demi ele Ge! ow OD) 0D) 128 9 28 2324 28 
eno) 61 51 25 8 24 25-24 28 
> 8 ; 52 53 26 8 24 2224 27 
cela lane 52 DAN 2a) 9 29 26-24 31 
aie 58 452 «225 | «Bk 
ies 58 52 26 8 238 23-24 25 
Lagosta, ¢ 66 55 28 Tl 29 24-23 28 
ea 64°52 27°" "S95 23-04 “97 
nee hgh ok 64 55 26 10 28 23 #28 
ae 62 52 26 10 25 2223 28 
i 4. 62) 53) 26 9 26 21-22 28 
oS «2 61 52 26 9 24 2293 97 
ae 58 54 26 9 26 25-24 28 
aVOE: 53 58 28 9 22% 2423 27 
A description of the form and scaling would be almost entirely a repetition of that 
of the var. fiumana. I will only observe that, whereas the collar is feebly serrated in 
the specimens from Lissa, as in var. fiwmana, it is entire in those from Lagosta. ‘The 
