340 Lacertiihv. 



18 to 24 scales across middle of body ; 12 to 17 femoral pores 

 on each side ; 17 to 19 lamellar scales under the fourth toe ; 

 hind limb reaching collar or ear-opening. . . A. africanus, Blgr. 

 33 scales across middle of body ; 9 femoral pores on each 

 side ; 24 lamellar scales under the fourth toe ; hind limb 

 barely reaching shoulder. .... A. boulengeri, Peracca. 



B. Siipraoculars in contact with the superciliaries ; dorsal scales 

 feebly keeled, the laterals and anterior entirely sjnooth. 



A. alleni, Barbour. 



1. ALGIROIDES FITZINGERI. 



Notopholis jitzivrjeri , Wiegin. Herp. Mex. p. 10 (1834) : Geno, Mem. 

 Ace. Torin. i, 1839, p. 266, pi. i, fig. 2 ; Ijonap. Icon. Faun. ItaL, Amf. 

 (1840) ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 34 (1845) ; I)e Betta, Faun. <l'Ital., Rett. 

 Anf. p. 22 (1874) ; Sclireib. Herp. Eur. p. 449 (1875) ; Bedriaga, 

 Arch. f. Nat. 1883, p. 259. 



Lacerta fitzingeri, Duin. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 194 (1839) ; Camer. 

 Mon. Saur. Ital. p. 86, pi. ii, figs. 12-14 (1885). 



Algiroides fitzingeri, Bedriaga, Abh. Seuck. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 405 ; 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 46 (1887) ; Sehreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 368 

 (1912).' 



Body moderately depressed. Head small, rather strongly depressed, 

 flat above, 11 to L} times as long as broad, its depth equal to the 

 distance between the centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length 

 3f to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 4f times in females ; 

 snout obtusely pointed, a little shorter than the postocular part of the 

 head. Parietal foramen present. Pterygoid teeth absent. Neck as 

 broad as or broader than the head. The limbs just overlap in females ; 

 the hind limb reaches the elboAv or between the elbow and the axil in 

 males ; foot as long as the head ; digits rather short, scarcely com- 

 pressed. Tail If to a little over 2 times as long as head and body, 

 often (males) of equal thickness in the anterior half. 



Nostril pierced between three or four shields ; nasals forming a very 

 short suture behind the rostral* ; frontonasal broader than long ; 

 prefrontals forming a short median sitturef ; frontal If to 1-J times 

 as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 of nearly equal width throughout ; parietals 1|^ to If times as long as 

 broad, more or less distinctly emarginate on the outer side for the 

 accommodation of the anterior upper temporalij; ; interparietal li to 2i 



* Rostral in contact with the frontonasal in a male from Lanusei, in one 

 from Corsica and in a male and a female from Sardinia. 



t Frontonasal in contact with frontal in two females from Sardinia. 



X Parietal divided into two bj^ a transverse suture proceeding from the inter- 

 parietal in a male from Corsica. 



