152 Lacertidx. 



It does not express the true relationships, as I regard L. dugesii as 

 more nearly related to L. inuralis than to the species with which it is 

 associated in this key. To remove the difficulties imposed by the 

 necessity of a serial arrangement, and to convey the affinities as 

 I conceive them, the following diagram has been drawn up : 



L. chlorogaster. L.jacksonii. L. jaydkari. L.lsevis. L. danfordii. L. oxycephala. 



I I ■ I I I I 



L. tmiralis L. dugesii. L. mosorensis. 



I 

 L. tatirica — . — L. peloponnesiaca. L. hrandtii. 



L. agilis L. parva. 



16. LACEETA TAUEICA. 



Lacerta tanrica, Pallas, Zoogr. Eoss.-As. iii, p. 30 (1811) : Eathke, 

 Mem. Sav. Etr. Ac. St. Petersb. iii, 1837, p. 302, pi. ii,figs. 1-4 ; Demi- 

 doff, Yoy. Euss. Mer. iii, p. 337, pi. i,figs. 1, 2 (1842) ; Kessler, Tr. St. 

 Petersb. Nat. Soc. viii, 1878, p. 163 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, 

 p. 740 ; Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 320, pi. — , fig. 28 : 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 26 (1887) ; Werner, Wiss. Mitth. Bosn. 

 Herzeg. vi, 1899, p. 833 ; Kiritzescu, Bull. Soc. Sc. Bucur. x, 1901, 

 p. 314 ; Mehely, Allat. Koslem. i, 1902, p. 58 ; Lehrs, Zool. Anz. 1902, 

 p. 231 ; Nikolsky, Herp. Eoss. p. 127 (1905) ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1907, p. 557, pi. xxx ; Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 439, fig. 

 (1912) ; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xxi, 1916, p. 41, pi. iii, figs. 1-6. 



Lacerta tanrica, part., Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 225 (1839) ; 

 Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 419 (1875). 



Fodareis taurica, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital., Amf. (1836). 



Zootoca taurica, part.. Gray, Cat. Liz, p. 29 (1845). 



Podareis taurica, part., De Betta, Eett. Anf. Grec. p. 35 (1868). 



Lacerta muralis neapolitana, part., Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 1881, p. 99, and Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 220. 



Lacerta peloponnesiaca (uon Bibr.), Werner, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. 

 Wien, xliv, 1894, p. 228, and Zool. Anz. 1895, p. 470. 



Lacerta muralis (non Laur.), Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1889, p. 270. 



Lacerta ionica, Lehrs, Zool. Anz. 1902, p. 232 ; Schreib. op. cit., 

 ed. 2, p. 436, fig. 



Head rather small, 4 to 4^ times in length to vent in males, 4^ to 

 4f in females, as deep as broad or not nauch broader than deep, 1^ to 

 If times as long as broad, exceptionally lij times* ; occipital region 



* In a male from Nision, Morea. 



