190 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE 
As stated above, examples of this variety are referred by Méhely to two subspecies 
of L. saxicola, which are thus differentiated in the key on p. 492. 
Limbs long, hind limb of ¢ reaching shoulder or collar, of female wrist or 
middle of fore arm ; 4145 scales across middle of body, not larger 
towards the belly, 3 corresponding to one ventral plate; gular scales 
20-23 ; 4: rows of small shields under the thigh ; femoral pores 14-18. Subsp. armeniaca. 
Limbs short, hind limb of ¢ reaching only the elbow or the axil ; 47-51 
scales across middle of body, distinctly larger towards the belly, 2 or 3 
corresponding to one ventral plate; gular scales 25-29; 5 or 6 rows 
of small shields under the thigh; femoral pores 16-19 . . . . . Subsp. dithynica. 
The only male specimen from Telenovka (armeniaca Méhely) at my disposal could 
not be determined by means of this synopsis, as it falls in the second division as 
regards the length of the hind limb, and in the first as regards the number of dorsal 
and gular scales. There is nothing distinctive in the character of the scales near the 
belly, and although it is true the female from the Bithynian Olympus (dithynica Méhely) 
differs from the specimens from Ielenovka in having 4 instead of 3 series of small 
shields between the large femoral shields and the pores * as well as a slightly greater 
number of dorsal and gular scales, these characters are too slight to justify the 
establishment of a variety, and besides they are found to break down if put to the 
test of larger series than Méhely had the privilege of examining. ‘The same author 
mentions and figures a single specimen in which the first supraocular is in contact 
with the frontal. Such an exception I have never met with either in this variety or in 
any of the forms which I united under Lacerta muralis, with the single exception of 
a specimen from Elizabethpol (var. savicola) in which it occurs on one side only +. 
The var. valentini Boettger, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1892, p. 145 (Z. saaxicola, subsp. 
valentini Méhely, l. c. p. 543, pl. xxi. fig. 6), does not appear to be separable from 
var. chalybdea. 42 to 48 scales across the body, 19 to 21 femoral pores. Back green, 
with black spots and vermiculations. From snout to vent 75 mm. Karabagh and 
Armenia. 
Var. SAXICOLA. 
Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Mose. iii. 1834, p. 349, pl. xxx. fig. 1; 
Nikolsky, Ann. Mus, Zool. Ac. St. Pétersb. xv. 1910, p. 490; Lehrs, Festschr. R. Hertwig, ii. 
pl. xiv. fig. 8 (1910). 
Lacerta grammica (non Licht.) Rathke, Mém. Sav. Etr. Ac. St. Pétersb. iii. 1837, p. 303. 
Lacerta taurica, part., de Filippi, Arch. p. la Zool. Anat. Fis. ii. 1863, p. 386. 

* These series of scales vary from 3 to 5 in the Mesopotamian specimens. 
+ Yet Mchely (Ann. Mus. Hung. viii. 1910, p. 223) gives “ Frontale .... dfters an das erste Supraoculare 
anstossend” as one of the features characteristic of his Archeolacerte. 
