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Lacertidce. 



^ I. La Guardia, ur. Majorca 

 „ I. Colomer, • 



„ I. Cabrera, 



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Columns as on p. 175. 



Habitat. — Balearic Islands : Minorca, Majorca, and neighbouring 

 islets. The specimens from I. del Ayre, La Griiardia, Las Frares, 

 Colomer and Cabrera are black and represent the var. lilfordi, s. str. 



Var. PITYUSENSIS. 



Lacerta muralis halearica, Boscii, An. Soc. Espan. H. I^. xii, 1883, 

 p. 245. 



Lacerta muralis, var. pifyusensis, Bosca, I.e. p. 246 ; Bouleng. Tr. 

 Zool. Soc. xvii, 1905, p. 370, pi. xxvi, figs. 1-5. 



Lacerta muralis halearica, var. pityusensis, Bedriaga, iVbh. Senck. 

 Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 254. 



Lacerta lilfordi, part., Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 464 (1912). 



Head 1| to If times as long as broad, moderately depressed, as in 

 the preceding ; snout rather pointed. Body and limbs as in the 

 preceding. Tail 1|- to a little over 2 times as long as head and body. 



Rostral entering the nostril, often largely ; exceptionally two post- 

 nasals * ; frontal as long as or shorter than its distance from the end 

 of the snout ; series of granules between the supraoculars and the 

 superciliaries usually incomplete t; occipital usually as long as and 

 broader than the interparietal, sometimes much smaller ; parietals 

 as in the preceding ; only exceptionally five anterior upper labials X ; 

 temporal scales very small, usually with a large masseteric disc, which 

 is but rarely entirely absent. 26 to 36 scales between the symphysis 

 of the chin-shields and the median collar-fold ; gular fold distinct. 

 Collar even-edged, formed of usually rather small plates, 9 to 14 in 

 number. 



* On one side in three specimens in the British Museum, on both sides in 

 one in the Madrid Museum. 



t Eeduced to a few in five specimens. 



X On one side in two specimens, on both sides in two others. 



