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appeared to me from its proportions and coloration (bright orange 

 below) to be referable to the typical form, and this view was confirmed 

 by the number of veutrals and of gulars, viz. 24 and 24 respectively. 

 This specimen, now in the British Museum, has been mentioned l)y 

 Dr. R. Ebner in Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien,, 1913, p. 310. 



Habitat. — The var. erhardi appears to be restricted to the G-recian 

 Archipelago (Northern Sporades and Cyclades), the above-mentioned 

 reference to its occurrence near Athens being due to an erroneous 

 identification. 



Var. QUADRILINEATA. 



Zootoca quadrilineata, G-ray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 279. 

 Lacerta podarcls, var. genei, Cara, Mon. Lacert. Sard. p. 32 (1872). 

 Podarcis muralis, var. lineata, De Betta, Faun, d'ltal., Rett. Auf. 

 p. 29 (1874), and Atti 1st. Yen. (5) iv, 1878, p. 901, and v, 1879, 

 p. 389. 



Podarcis tiliguerta, part., Camerano, Atti Ace. Tor. xiii, 1877, p. 87, 

 pi. ii, fig. 1. 



Lacerta muralis neajjuhtana, part., Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, 

 p. 274. 



Lacerta muralis fiisca, Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, p. 268, and 

 Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 191. 



Lacerta muralis fusca, var. Corsica, Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1883, 

 p. 269, and op. cit. p. 193. 



Lacerta taurica genet, Camerano, Mon. Saur. Ital. p. 49, pi. i, figs. 

 6-8, 22-25, 28 (1885). 



Lacerta muralis genei, Camerano, Boll. Mus. Tor. i, 1886, No. 7. 



Lacerta mtiralis neapolitana, var. lineata, Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. 

 xiv, 1886, p. 229. 



Lacerta muralis, var. genei, Mchely, Ann. Mus. Hung, ii, 1904, 

 pp. 365 and 366. 



Lacerta muralis, var. quadrilineata, Bouleug. Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii, 

 1905, p. 405, pi. xxiii, fig. 4, and pi. xxix, figs. 1-4 ; Schreib. Herp. 

 Eur., ed. 2, p. 421 (1912) ; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xx, 1913, p. 153. 



Head rather small, about H to lif times as long as broad, moderately 

 depressed, its depth equalling the distance between the anterior corner 

 or the centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length oij to 4^ times 

 in length to vent in males, 4 or 5 times in females ; snout pointed. 

 Neck as broad as or a little narrower than the head. Body moderately 

 depressed. Hind limit reaching the collar or between the collar and 

 the ear in males, the shoulder or the collar in females ; foot \\ to U 



