168 Laceriiche. 



spots, the McKtk spots small or reduced to dots in females, often 

 numerous and larj^^e in males, in which they may be confluent into 

 longitudinal l)ands on the sides of the belly ; some males with the 

 throat and belly cream-colour with rust-red spots ; sky-blue spots 

 usually present on the outer row of ventral plates, especially in iTiales.* 

 Sometimes a dark streak along the series of chin-shields, forming a 

 chevron-shaped marking as in L. atlantica and L. galloti. 



The following notes are taken from exceptional specimens : 



Male from St. Luuaire. ^ Black above, with numerous round lemon- 

 yellow spots ; belly pinkish white, spotted with black. 



Males from La Deva, opposite Ariiao (var. ras'pdnefli, Bedr.). 

 Dark olive-green to dark brown above ; a series of black spots along 

 the middle of the back ; sides of body sky-blue with a black network ; 

 large black spots on the upper surface of the tail ; lower parts bright 

 red, much spotted with black ; the whole of the outer row of ventral 

 plates and the outer half of the adjacent plates sky-blue. 



Males from Bassovica, near Trieste (var. maculiventns, Werner). 

 Much spotted with black above and beneath, with a black, wavy lateral 

 band ; approaching the var. hrueggemamii. 



In some males from Bosnia the belly is spotted to such an extent as 

 to appear black with numerous small white spots. 



Uniform black specimens have been reported from Bordeauxf and 

 the Italian lakes J and I have seen two from Florence, § and one from 

 Marseilles (in the Paris Museum). 



L. Vaillant|l in announcing the very interesting find of two 

 specimens of bluish-black wall-lizards on one of the Grienan Isles, on 

 the Atlantic coast of Brittany, has recorded them under the name of 

 var. lilfordi. I have had the opportunity of examining one of them 

 in the Paris Museum, and, as I expected, it agrees entirely in its 

 lepidosis with the typical form.^ 



Young, just out of the egg, are dark grey above with round or 

 vermicular lighter spots ; a black vertebral line is often present ; the 

 two lateral streaks are usually very distinct and formed of more or less 



* Chabanaud (li)19) has pointed out their absence in several specimens from 

 Macedonia. 



t Lataste, Herp. Gir. p. 7(5. 



t Kammerer, Zentralbl. f. Physiol, xx, 190G, p. 2G1. 



§ On one of which I have reported in P. Z. S. 1905, ii, p. 324. 



II Bnll. Mus. Paris, 1906, p. 438. 



^ I am not sure whether or not to refer to the typical form the L. muralis 

 atrata, Bosca, from Las Ferreres Islets, Castellon : black above and dark blue 

 beneath. Black lizards, mixed with the "lagartejas ordinarias," were also 

 found on the mainland in the same province. 



