Lacerta. 299' 



21. LACERTA BRANDTII. 



Lacerta hrandtii, De Filippi, Arch. Zool. An. Fis. ii, 1863, p. 387, and 

 Viagg. Pers. p. 354 (1865) ; Bhmf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 362, pi. xx, fig. 1 

 (1876) ; Boettg. in Radde, Faun. Flor. Casp.-Geb. p. 42 (1886) ; 

 Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 268 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, 

 p. 38 (1887); Nikolslcy, Herp. Ross. p. 139 (1905), and Herp.Caucas. 

 p. 91 (1913) ; Bouleug. Tr. Zool. Soc. xxi, 1916, p. 58, pi. ii, fig. 13. 



Head and body feebly depressed, as in L. tanrica. Head about Ih 

 times as long as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the 

 anterior corner of the eye and the tympanum ; snout obtuse, as long 

 as postocular part of head ; cheeks not much swollen in the male ; 

 length of pileus twice its width. Neck a little constricted. Hind 

 limb reaching the shoulder in the male, the elbow or the axil in the 

 female ; foot longer than the head. Tail cylindrical, about twice as 

 long as head and body. 



Nostril pierced between the nasal, two postnasals, and the first 

 upper labial. Nasals forming a suture behind the rostral; fi'onto- 

 nasal broader than long; frontal If to 2 times as long as broad, 

 neai-ly as broad, behind, as the principal supraoculars, not in contact 

 with the first supraocular ; parietals Ik to 1^ times as long as broad,, 

 not in contact with or just touching the upper postocular, the outer 

 border straight or slightly concave for the accommodation of the 

 temporal ; occipital small, |- to ^ the length of the interparietal, which 

 is equally broad or a little broader. The two major supraocvdars, of 

 which the first is the longer, separated from the superciliaries by a 

 complete series of granules, or the first in contact with the first or 

 first and second superciliaries ; the fourth supraocular usually in 

 contact with the first upper temporal; 6 or 7 superciliaries, first 

 usually longest, the suture between the first and second more or less- 

 oblique. 



Rostral touching or nearly touching the nostril ; two superposed 

 postnasals ; two loreals, first not more than half as long as second. 

 5 upper lal)ials anterior to the subocular,* the lower border of which 

 is much shorter than the upper. Temporal region with rather large 

 scales ; masseteric shield present, small or large ; tympanic present ; 

 two or three upper temporals, first largest. 



Pterygoid teeth strongly developed, 



23 to 25 scales and granules in a straight line between the sym- 



* " Nahezu constant," Boetty^er. 



