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convex ; the depth of the head, iii the tympanic ret,'iou, equal to or a 

 little greater than the distance between the anterior corner of the eye 

 and the anterior border of the tympanum ; snont obtusely pointed, 

 with straight or slightly convex upper profile, as long as the distance 

 between the eye and the tympanum. Neck as broad as the head, or a 

 little narrower or a little broader. Body feebly or moderately depressed. 

 Hind limb reaching the axil, the shoulder, or the collar in males, 

 the wrist or the elbow of the adpressed fore liml) in females ; foot as long 

 as the head or a little longer (not more than 1} times) ; toes feebly 

 compressed. Tail cylindrical, 1} to slightly over 2 times the length of 

 head and body. 



Nostril pierced between the nasal, a postnasal, the first upper 

 labial, and nearly always the rostral* ; frontonasal much broader 

 than longt ; frontal as long as or shorter than its distance from the 

 end of the snout, 1^} to If times as long as broad, nearly as broad, 

 behind, as the major supraoculars ; parietals 1 J to I.5 times as long as 

 broad, with straight or convex outer border, nearly always in con- 

 tact with the upper postocular+ ; occipital very variable in shape, 

 usually shorter than the intraparietal,§ sometimes fused with it or 

 separated from it by a small shield. Major supraoculars equal or 

 first a little the longer ; 5 or (5 supei'ciliai-ies, first or second longest, 

 the suture between the first and second usually oblique, sometimes 

 vertical ; an incomplete series of granules between the supraoculars and 

 the superciliaries,the first superciliary being constantly in contact with 

 the second supraocular, the gi'anules sometimes minute or reduced to 

 2 to 5. II Eostral entering the nostril, often largely^; postnasal 

 single** ; 2 loreals, first much shorter than second ; 4 upper labials 

 anterior to the subocular,tt the lower border of which is shorter than 

 the upper. Scutellation of the temple very variable, the two extremes 



* In a female from Nisioii the frontonasal forms a suture with the rosti'al ; 

 in a male from Cephalonia the nasal is in contact with the anterior loreal, above 

 the postnasal. 



t Longitudinally bisected in a female from Budapest, broken up into four 

 shields in a female from Bazias. 



X Except in a male from Budapest — Franzstadt. 



§ As long as the interparietal in a few specimens from Greece and the Ionian 

 Islands. 



II In specimens from Crimea, Bulgaria, Hungaiy, Cephalonia and Corfu. 



•[ I have observed only two exceptions (female from Tzabadka and female 

 from Corfu), in which the nostril is narrowly separated from the rostral. 



•* Two superposed postnasals in a male from Nision. 



tt 5 on one side in a male and in a female from Budapest, in a female fx'om 

 Szabadka and in another from Kutshuk ; three on each side in a male from 

 Cephalonia. 



