Lacerfa. 103 



Yjj. Pomerao 



(J Cintra 



Yg. ,. . . . 



Yg. Lisbon . 



Hgr. Alcochete 



(J Low. Alemtejo 



Yg. Salir, Algarve 



1. From (^nd of snout to vent (in millimetres). 2. Scales across middle of 

 body. 3. Longitudinal series of ventral plates. 4. Transverse series of 

 ventral plates. 5. Plates in collar. 6. Gular scales in median longitudinal 

 series. 7. Femoral pores (right and left). 8. Lamellte under fourth toe. 

 9. Width of frontal shield. 10. Width of occipital shield (in millim.). 



Habitat. — Liguria, South of France as far North as the Jura and 

 the Charente-Infcrieure, Spain and Portugal. 1140 ui. is the highest 

 altitude reached l)v this form in the Alps, 1000 m. in Spain. 



Remains which are certainly referable to this lizard have been 

 recorded* from a cave at Luuel-Yiel, Herault, with TJrsus spelxus 

 (Pleistocene). A parietal bone from La Grive St. Alban (Middle 

 Miocene), preserved in the British Museum (Lacerta lamandini, 

 FilholV) is not distinguishable fi-om the same bone in L. viridis, 

 var. major, and L. ocellata, var. pater. 



Var. PATEE. 



Lacerta ocellata, Schleg. in Wagn. Eeis. Alg. iii, p. 112 (1841) ; 

 Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 33 (1862) ; Bouleng. Nov. Zool. xii, 1905, p. 74, 

 pi. i, fig. 2 and pi. ii, fig. 1 ; Rosen, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi, 1905, 

 p. 138. 



Lacerta ocellata pater, Lataste, Le Natural. 1880, p. 306. 



Lacerta ocellata, var. viridissima, Boettg. Ber. Senclc. Ges. 1880-81, 

 p. 146, and in Kobelt, Reise Alg. Tun. p. 466 (1885). 



Lacerta pater, Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 54; J. v. 

 Fisch. Zool. Gart. xxix, 1888, p. 265 ; Werner, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. 

 Wien, xlii, 1892, pp. 351 and 353 and xliv, 1894, p. 79. 



Lacerta ocellata, xslv. pater, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 13 (1887), and 

 Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii, 1891, p. 123, pi. xv, figs, a-e; Doumergue, Herp. 

 Oran. p. 117, pi. viii, figs. 1, 2 (1901) ; Lehrs, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. 

 xxviii, 1909, p. 84. 



* Gervais, Zool. Pal. Fran.;, p. 258, pi. Ixiv, fig. 4 (1852). 



