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9 Foyos, near Valencia 

 S Cadix (P.M.) . 



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„ Seville .... 



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Columns as on p. 175. 



Habitat.— 'Yh.h variety is only Icnown from the vicinity of Valencia 

 and from Seville and Cadix. 



Var. HISPANIC A. 



Lacerta oxycephala, var. luspanica, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien. Ixii, 1, 

 1870, p. 336, pi. i, fii,^s. 3-6 ; Boettg. Abh. Senclc. Ges. xii, 1881, p. 376. 



Lacerta oxycephala, part., Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 404 (1875). 



Lacerta muralis fusca, var., Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, p. 293. 



Lacerta muralis steindachneri, Bedi'iaga, Abli. Senclc. Ges. xiv, 

 1886. p. 256. 



Lacerta muratis, var. hispanica, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 33 (1887), 

 and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii, 1905, p. 368, pi. xxiv, fig. 14, and pi. xxv, 

 figs. 14, 15. 



Lacerta hispanica, Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 429 (1912). 



A small form which, in its much flattened head, sharply-pointed 

 snout, and conspicuously striated body, suggests a young Acantho- 

 dactylus. 



Head and body much depressed; head 1^ to 1| times as long as 

 broad.* Hind limb reaching the axil or the shoulder ; foot about 

 1^ times the length of the head. Tail twice as long as head and body, 

 or a little moT'e or a little less. 



Eostral not touching the nostril ; frontal nearly twice as long as 

 Ijroad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout ; series of 

 granules between the supraoculars and the superciliaries complete or 

 first superciliary in contact with the second supraocular ; parietals 

 about 1^ times as long as broail, not touching, or barely touching the 

 upper postocular ; occipital shorter than the interparietal and as 

 broad or broader ; frequently 5 upper labialst anterior to the sub- 



* 2J times in Schreiber's description is evidently a lapsus, 

 t Of the 3 specimens examined one has 5 on both sides, a second has 5 on 

 one side and 4 on the other, whilst the tliii'd has 4 on both sides. 



