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$ Katar, Armenia, L.M. 



($ Trebizoud, P.M. . 



„ Ti-ebizond ? (type of L. 



2)ressa), T.M. 



„ Trebizoud ? „ 



,, Erdschias Dagli, Asia Minor 



„ Cicilian Taurus 



Columns as on p. 175. 



Habitat. — Crimea, Cis- and Transcaucasia, Asia Minor. 



Lacerta caucasica, var. tenuis, Nikolsky, which was referred by me, 

 with a query, to the synonymy of L. cJilorog aster, belongs to this form 

 according to M. Lantz, who has examined the type from Lenkoran. 



The vars. hrauneri, Mchely (Ann. Mus. Hung, vii, 1909, p. 509), and 

 raddei, Boettger (Ber. Senck. Ges. 1892, p. 142), with which I am 

 only acquainted through the descriptions, appear to connect this form 

 with the var defilippii. 



The small var. parvula, Lantz and Cyi'en, Mitth. Kauk. Mus. vii, 

 1913, p. 163, figs., from Artvin, Transcaucasia, of which I have 

 examined a photograph received from Mr. Lantz, may be regarded 

 as intermediate between the vars. saxicola and portschinslcii. 



Var. PORTSCHINSKIL 



Lacerta taurica, part., De Filippi, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis. ii, 1863, 

 ■p. 386. 



Podarcis depressa, part., Camerano, Atti Ace. Tor. xiii, 1878, p. 539^. 



Lacerta portschinskii, Kessler, Tr. Soc. Nat. St. Petersb. viii, 1878, 

 p. 160, pi. i ; Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, p. 308. 



Lacerta muralis, var. depressa, part., Bedriaga, t.c. p. 312. 



Lacerta muralis, var. portschinsJcii, Bouleng. P. Z. S. 1904, ii, p. 337, 

 pi. xxii, fig. 6, and Tr. Zool. Soc. xx, 1913, p. 193, pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 



Lacerta muralis, part., Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 136 (1905). 



Lacerta saxicola, var. chalybdea (non Eichw.), Mehely, Ann. Mus. 

 Himg. vii, 1909, p. 513. 



Lacerta saxicola, var. portschinskii, Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool, 

 St. Petersb. xv, 1910, p. 493. 



Lacerta saxicola portschinskii, Nikolsky, Herp. Caucas. p. 70 (1913). 



A small, slender form, with very pointed snout. Hind limb 

 reaching the shoulder or the collar in the male, between the wrist 

 and the elbow in the female. Frontonasal as long as broad or a 



