176 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE 
Measurements (in millimetres) :— 
From end of snout tovent .... . 50 58 73 60 
Be a Fs forewimbieus. ye) ae LD 22 31 23 
Mength of bead "= ..5- saw ae wee een 13 17 14 
Widthiof head... .. oe aa mee nen 7 8 11 9 
Wepthiot- head’. 5.) se eee aa) 6 9 7 
Bore‘limb” |.) 0%) Go.) a ae eee 19 23 20 
Mind limb’... iy acs ee ee ee eee SO 29 36 30 
OOt! fis © te OE 1G as 16 20 17 
Parl set Gi, Ch Bae EN ge CO. vox 90% 78* 
* Reproduced. 
The size is often larger than in the var. lissana, but the proportions are the same. 
The hind limb reaches the shoulder or the collar in males, the elbow of the adpressed 
fore limb or the axil in females. The dorsal scales are usually less distinctly keeled, 
and those on the flanks are always smooth; 35 to 48 scales on the middle of the 
back correspond to the length of the head. Collar sometimes entire, sometimes 
feebly serrated. First and second supraciliaries in contact with the first supraocular. 
Masseteric disk large and often in contact with the supratemporal. 6 anterior upper 
labials in 10 per cent. of the specimens examined (on one side in six specimens, on both 
sides in one). This insular form has a tendency to lose the occipital shield, in fact, it 
is entirely absent in the first and fifth specimens of the above list; it is small and 
separated from the interparietal in 13 out of the 20 specimens examined, in which 
case the parietals form a short median suture, small and just touching the inter- 
parietal in 3, forming a narrow suture with the interparietal in 2. 
Dark brown to nearly black above, with the markings of the var. lissana more or 
less distinct, at least in certain lights. Females have a black vertebral streak, some- 
times light-edged, and a light dorso-lateral streak extends from the supraciliary edge 
to the tail; males have more the style of markings represented in the specimen from 
Lagosta (see Pl. XIX. fig. 10). The lower parts are black, or of a blackish steel- 
blue, with pale blue spots on the sides; in the males these blue spots are large and 
often form a continuous band along the outer row of ventral shields, in the females 
they are small or very indistinct. The broken tail is sometimes regenerated black 
or blackish, but more often brown above and whitish beneath. 
According to Scherer, the young do not differ from the lizards of Lissa in colour. 
Specimens from the Scoglio Kamik, west of St. Andrea, near Lissa, have been named 
var. galvagnii (Werner, Mitth. Naturw. Ver. Univ. Wien, vi. 1908, p. 49). They 
differ from the Melisello lizards in the absence of blue on the sides of the belly, 
being uniform black or blackish. By their heavy form and thick tail, they remind 
one of the var. li/fordi melanos, but the scaling is the same as in var. melisellensis, 

