VARIETIES OF THE WALL-LIZARD. 145 
Except for the absence of a vertebral stripe or series of spots, the larger specimens 
(¢), one of which is figured on Pl. XVI. fig. 11, are not without a general 
resemblance to the var. pitywsensis, and such specimens have no doubt given rise to 
Bedriaga’s remarks* on Seoane’s var. bocagii: ‘“‘ Kine Ubergangsform, welche die 
pityusensis und die fusca verkettet, ist mir neuerdings aus der spanischen Proyinz 
Galizien zugestellt worden.” On the other hand, the smallest male is on the way to 
the black, light-spotted attire of the Serra de Gerez specimen, figured by me in 
Tr. 1905, pl. xxiv. fig. 8. The females (Pl. XVI. fig. 12) are beautifully striped, 
an exaggeration of the pattern represented on pl. xxiv. fig. 7, of Tr. 1905. Belly 
unspotted in males as well as in females. 
I am indebted to Dr. Gadow for several specimens collected by himself near Burbia, 
Asturias, between Galicia and Leon, one of which calls for notice as bridging over, to 
a certain extent, the chasm separating this variety from the var. monticola, of which 
specimens were obtained in the same neighbourhood. 
I append its particulars :— 
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The internasals form an extremely short suture behind the rostral; the parietal just 
touches the upper postocular, and is slightly emarginate on its line of contact with the 
anterior supratemporal +; the masseteric disk is well developed, and is separated from 
the latter shield by one granule, and from the last upper labial by one granule on the 
left side and by two on the right; the first and second supraciliaries are in contact 
with the anterior supraocular {, and the suture between them is vertical, not oblique. 
The shape of the head does not differ from that of the var. monticola, but some of the 
specimens of the var. bocagit from Spain and Portugal have also the head much flattened. 
In the lizards from the Spanish Peninsula, it is impossible to draw a demarcation line 
between the pyramidocephalous and the platycephalous type, which culminates in the 
var. hispanica. I can predict that a larger series of specimens from that part of Spain 
would so completely link the vars. bocagii and monticola as to render the naming of 
certain individuals arbitrary. 
Var. MONTICOLA. 
My friend Dr. Gadow has presented to the British Museum two specimens of this 
variety, which Prof. Méhely has raised to specific rank, as he was bound to do if 
* Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. 1886, p. 255. 
t As shown by fig. 13, on Pl. XVI., taken from a male specimen from Coimbra, in Dr. de Bedriaga’s 
collection, the anterior temporal may be extensively in contact with the fourth supraocular in the var. bocagii 
as well as in the yar. monticola. 
¢ I find exactly the same condition in a 2 L. horvathi received from Prof. Méhely, the granules behind 
the second supraciliary being reduced to five. 
