VARIETIES OF THE WALL-LIZARD. 203 
Dr. Werner mentions having seen quite similar lizards at Pera, near Constantinople, 
and he was perfectly right in regarding them as an “ olivacea-Form” of the lizard 
described by Berthold as L. hieroglyphica, from Constantinople. Thanks to the 
kindness of Prof. Ehlers, I was able to examine Berthold’s specimens preserved in the 
Gottingen Museum, a half-grown male and a very young animal. Apart from the 
reticulate markings and the proportions, due to the different sex, the agreement 
with the Marmora Islands specimens is very close. 
: 3. 4. 5. 6. ile 
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The hind limb reaches a little beyond the collar. The male has 4 anterior upper 
labials on the right side and 5 on the left, the young has 4 on both sides. 4 or 5 
dorsal scales correspond to one ventral plate, 55 to the length of the head; 34 caudal 
scales in the fourth whorl, 
Berthold described his L. hieroglyphica as “supra nigra, figuris hieroglyphicis albis 
notata.” Now somewhat bleached, the larger specimens appear olive with a wide- 
meshed black network, as is frequently the case in the var. tiliguerta ; the young is 
also reticulate, but the markings have a tendency to dispose themselves in five longi- 
tudinal series, as in some young of var. serpa. Lower parts unspotted. 
Measurements (in millimetres) :— 
From end ofsnout tovent ..... . 48 
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Upper and side views of head of this specimen are given on Pl. XXI. fig. 4. 
On my visit to the Florence Museum, I found several specimens labelled as from 
Cattaro, Dalmatia, which I refer to the same form. No importance can, I think, be 
attached to the locality, and the fact that the bottle in which they are preserved 
contains also two specimens of Lacerta lwvis Gray, makes it probable that they came 
from Asia. Having, through the courtesy of Prof. Giglio-Tos, obtained the loan of 
two of these lizards, I have drawn up the following notes on the points in which they 
disagree with Dr. Werner’s specimens :— 
il 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 
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