Lacerta. 95 



plates usually iu 8 longitudinal series ; occipital usually broader than 

 the interparietal ; a series of granules between the supraoculars and 

 the superciliaries ; tympanic shield present : temporal scales com- 

 paratively small ; young usually with a light vertebral streak. 



Var. ivoosnami, Blgr. 38 to 43 scales across middle of the body, 

 dorsals considerably larger than laterals ; ventral plates in 6 longitu- 

 dinal series; occipital not or but slightly broader than the interparietal; 

 a series of granules between the supraoculars and the superciliaries ; 

 tympanic shield present ; young with a light vertebral streak. 



Var. schreiberi, Bedr. 48 to 58 scales across middle of body ; 

 ventral plates in 8 longitudinal series ; occipital usually broader than 

 the interparietal ; granules between the supraoculars and the super- 

 ciliaries often absent or much reduced ; tympanic shield absent ; 

 young without light streaks, Avith large round light spots on the sides. 



4. LACERTA PKINCEPS. 



Lacerta pr'mceps, Blanf. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 31, 

 and Zool. E. Persia, p. 364, pi. xxiv (1876) ; Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. 

 Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 123 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 18 (1887) ; Mehely, 

 Zool. Anz. XXXV, 1910, p. 594. 



The following description is taken from an adult female from near 

 Shiraz in the British INIuseum, which agrees very closely with the type 

 and unique specimen, likewise a female, described by Blanfoixl and 

 preserved in the Calcutta Museum. Foot-notes will indicate the few 

 points in which this specimen does not quite agree with the type. 



Proportions and shape of head as in L. viridis tyjjica. Length of 

 head nearly 4^ times in length to vent; pileus 2 1 times as long as 

 broad. Hind limb not quite reaching the axil ; foot once and ^ 

 length of head. Tail a little less'' than twice length of head and body. 



Nostril pierced between 5 shields. Rostral largely entering the 

 nostril; nasals forming a short suture behind the rostral; frontonasal 

 broader than long, between 8 shields ; i)refrontals forming a mode- 

 rately long median suture ; frontal hexagonal, with straight parallel 

 sides, with a median groove, nearly twice as long as broad, as long as 

 its distance from the end of the snout, broader than the supraoculars, 

 of which the first is very small and in contact with the second loreal, 

 the second a little longer than the third, the fourth smaller but nearly 

 as long as the third ; superciliaries 5-6, first longest and forming a 

 very oblique suture with the second : 4-3 granules between the supra- 

 oculars and the superciliaries; parietals nearly twice as long as broad, 

 * A little more in the type. 



