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of Catalogna and Guipuzcoa, south of a line drawn from Roueu to 

 Basle, a few isolated localities on the Rhine, south of Coblenz, Switzer- 

 land, Italy and Sicily, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary and the Balkan 

 Peninsula, north of a line extending from Montenegro to Constanti- 

 nople ; a few isolated localities near Berlin and Warsaw. Its range in 

 Russia has still to be detemiined, owing to confusion with the var. 

 strigata, but it certainly occurs in the Kieft" Government and probably 

 down to the mouth of the Dnieper.* It is also known from the 

 northern parts of Asia Minor, as far east as Trebizond. Whether it 

 extends to Persia, whence the types of the var. vaillanti are supposed 

 to have come (Coll. Aucher-Eloy), is very doubtful. t Highest altitude 

 in the Alps about 1700 metres. J 



Var. STRIGATA. 



Lacerta strigata, Eichw. Zool. Spec. Ross. Pol. iii, p. 189 (1831), and 

 Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 70, pi. x, figs. 4-6 (1841) ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 32 

 (1845) ; Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 485 (1912). 



Lacerta quinquevittata, Menetr. Cat. Rais. p. 61 (1832), 



Lacerta viridis, var. strigata, De Filippi, Viagg. Pers. p. 354 (1865) ; 

 Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 372 ; Kessler, Tr. St. Petersb. Nat. 

 Soc. viii, 1878, p. 146 ; Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 89 ; 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 17 (1887) ; Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1892, 

 p. 138 ; Nikolsky, Fedschenko's Reise, Zool. ii, pt. vii, p. 30 (1899), 

 and Herp. Ross. p. 97 (1905) ; Steind. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xx, 1905, 

 p. 307. 



Lacerta viridis, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 170, and in 

 Radde, Faun. Flor. Casp.-Geb. p. 39 (1886). 



Lacerta viridis, part., Steind. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixiv, 1897, 

 p. 696. 



Lacerta viridis, var. major, Kiritzescu, Bui. Soc. Sc. Bucur. x, 1901, 

 p. 305 ; Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xix, 1903, p. 331 ; Kowatcheff, 

 Herp. Faun. Bulg. p. 24 (1912). 



* These Russian specimens have, according to Kessler, 48 to 52 scales across 

 the body, as against 42 to 46 in the var. strigata. 



t The botanical collector Aucher-Eloy travelled in 1835-38 over considerable 

 parts of Asia Minor and Persia, and also stayed at Constantinople. After his 

 death, at Ispahan, in 1838, his collection of Reptiles was purchased by the Paris 

 Museum, and all the specimens wei'e labelled en bloc in that institution as from 

 Persia, no localities being appended. Some of them, Lacerta taurica and 

 Chamieleon vulgaris, for instance, were certainly not obtained in Persia. 



X Obtained at that altitude in the Alpes-Maritimes at Lioson, above St. 

 Etienne de Tinee, by M. Gaston de Witte. 



