84 Lacertidx. 



whilst he also refers, in the synonyniy, to notes by Steindachner on 

 nine specimens from Angora with 46, 42, and 38 scales. As I happen 

 to be acquainted with the Angora lizard, which is certainly not 

 identical with the var. major, I must come to the conclusion that 

 Dr. Werner's material requires revision, and that therefore his objec- 

 tion to using the number of scales for distinguishing the var. major 

 is luijustified. As may be seen from the tables given in this paper, 

 the typical form has 40 to 50 scales, only very exceptionally up to 55, 

 and the var. major 50 to 58. The difference in the number of scales 

 is therefore amply sufficient for the definition of a variety, especially 

 as it goes hand in hand with the chai'acter of the occipital shield, 

 which Wei'ner says is not distinctive ; but I find this shield to be 

 usually, if iiot constantly, considerably larger in the var. major, in 

 some specimens even comparable to that of an average L. oceJIafa 

 of the var. pater. "Werner himself* has figured a specimen from 

 Zara, Dalmatia, in which the occipital is fully thi'ee times as large as 

 the interparietal ; nothing approaching this has ever been found in 

 the typical form. Leydig also was struck by the large size of the 

 occipital in Greek specimens (" sehr gross . . . bei zwei 20 Zoll 

 [= 520 millim.] langen Exemplaren aiis Griechenland "), and Schreiber 

 says, " das Interparietale ist bedeutexad kleiner als das Occipitale." 

 Suspecting Werner to have confounded examples of the var. striyata, 

 as I conceive it, with the var. major in his account of the lizards of 

 Asia Minor, I will abstain from referring to his statements in drawing 

 up the following description. 



In size and in the massive build adult males approach L. ocellafa, 

 and the snout is likewise more pointed and the cheeks strongly 

 swollen. The length of the head is 3§ to 4 times in the length to 

 vent in males, 4 j to 4 times in females ; pileus 2 to 2^ times as long 

 as broad ; the upper surface of the head is usually very uneven in 

 adult males. 



The proportions of the limbs vary, but the hind limb always 

 reaches at least as far as the axil in males, the elbow in females. 

 Foot 1 to If- times the length of the head in males, 1^ to If times in 

 females. 



Tail 1| to 2J times the length of head and body. 



The head-shields are as in the typical form, except in a few points 

 included in the following notes : The rostral always largely enters the 

 nostril ; the occipital, in the adult, may be shorter than and as broad 

 as the intei-parietal, but it is often as long and once and a-half to twice 



* Kept. Amph. Oesterr.-Ung. pi. ii, fig-. 1. 



