Particulars of Specimens Examined. 



$ Sukhum Kale, Transcaucasia . 

 Comana Forest, Vlasca, Eoumania 



<J Herkulesbad, Transylvania 



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Table as in the preceding, minus column 9. 



Habitat. — Cis- and Transcaucasia, and South Coast of the Caspian 

 Sea ; Valleys of the Southern Carpathians under 600 m. altitude. 

 The species has recently been recorded from Bulgaria. 



All the specimens in the British Museum * have 6 pairs of chin- 

 shields, the 3 anterior forming a median suture, and are therefore 

 referable to Lantz and Cyrcn's subspecies j>o«f/cfl. The typical form, 

 according to them, with 5 pairs of chin-shields, the 2 anterior forming 

 a median suture,t is confined to the Caspian Sea basin, and is dis- 

 tinguished besides by rather smaller and more feebly keeled scales 

 (35 to 43, usually 39, across middle of body).;]: 



* 15 in number. 



t The authors mention, liowever, occasional exceptions (one in the case of 

 each of the two forms) with 5 sliields on one side and 6 on the other. 



X The series in the British Museum does not support the authors' statement 

 as to two other characters — the postnasal and the masseteric shield ; all have 



