VARIETIES OF THE WALL-LIZARD., 197 
Rostral not entering the nostril; suture between the nasals very short *; nasal 
sometimes forming a suture with the anterior loreal; frontal as long as or shorter than 
its distance from the end of the snout; series of granules between the supraoculars 
and the supraciliaries usually complete; occipital much shorter, and often broader 
than the interparietal; parietal more or less distinctly emarginate on the side} for 
the accommodation of a large supratemporal, which is usually in contact with the upper 
postocular ; temporal scales granular; masseteric and tympanic shields usually large ¢ ; 
usually four, sometimes three or five, upper labials anterior to the subocular. 25 to 
34 scales and granules in a straight line between the symphysis of the chin-shields 
and the median collar-plate; gular fold absent or feebly marked; collar-edge entire ; 
7 to 11 collar-plates. 
Scales on body oval or oval-hexagonal, more or less distinctly keeled, somewhat 
enlarged towards the ventrals, 45 to 52) across the middle of the body, 35 to 40 
corresponding to the length of the head, 3 or 4 or 2 or 3 to one ventral plate. 
Ventral plates in 6 longitudinal and 24 to 29 transverse series. Prieanal plate large, 
usually preceded by a transversely enlarged plate. 
Scales on upper surface of tibia considerably larger than dorsals and strongly keeled. 
15 to 23 (usually 16 to 21) femoral pores on each side. 25 or 26 lamellar scales 
under the fourth toe. : 
Upper caudal scales very strongly keeled, those on the sides raised, subtrigonal, 
almost spinose, truncate behind; the whorls alternately longer and shorter, and the 
scales of the two median dorsal series of every other whorl much wider than the 
others. 18 to 26 scales in the fourth whorl behind the postanal granules. 
Brown or greyish olive above, darker on the sides, which have round light spots; a 
dorso-lateral series of round light spots, or ocelli, which may disappear in the adult ; 
back with small dark spots, which often form a double vertebral series; lower parts 
whitish, with blue spots on the outer row of ventral plates. 
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* Sometimes rostral forming a suture with frontonasal. 
+ Very indistinctly in the type figured, P. Z. S. 1904, ii. pl. xxii. fig, ¢. 
+ Masseteric shield small in the specimen from Tchoroc and 'Tcherneia Aragdwa. 
§ 46 to 58 according to M¢hely, 
