o48 Lacertiche. 



Habitat. — Gorizia, Carniola, Istria (with Cherso and Ve^^lia Ids.), 

 W. Ci'oatia, Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Epirus, 

 and Ionian Islands. 



4. ALGIEOIDES AFRICANUS. 



Algiroides africauus, Bouleiii;-. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1906, ii, p. 570, fig., 

 and Eev. Zool. Afr. vii, 1919, p. 13 ; Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. 

 xxxix, 1919, p. 201, tig., pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 



uidolfus fridericianus, Sternf. in Schubotz, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. 

 Z.-Afr. Exped. iv, ii, p. 220, fig. (1912). 



Body rather strongly depressed. Head rather strongly depressed. 

 Hat above, l.V to If times as long as broad, its depth equal to the 

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

 3j to 4 times in length to vent ; snout obtusely pointed, as long as 

 the postocular part of the head. Parietal foramen usually absent. 

 Pterygoid teeth absent. Neck as broad as the head. The hind limb 

 reaches the collar or the ear-opening ; foot longer than the head ; 

 digits slender, compressed, the basal phalanx of the toes forming a 

 keel. Tail lif to 2j times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields more or less rugose with very fine strise ; nostril 

 pierced between tw^o shields ; nasals forming a very short suture 

 behind the rostral or rostral in contact Avith the frontonasal,* which is 

 as long as broad or a little broader ; suture between the prefrontals 

 usually short! ; frontal If to 2 times as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, narrower behind than in front ; 

 parietals 1^ to 1^ times as long as broad, in contact with the upper 

 postocular J ; interparietal narrow ; occipital small, shorter and often 

 broader than the interparietal, from which it may be separated by the 

 parietals. § Four supraoculars, first very small, second a little longer 

 than third, fourth larger than first ; 6 or 7 superciliaries, first longest 

 and in contact with the second supraocular ; a series of granules 

 between the supraoculars and the superciliaries. Nasal narrowly 

 separating the nostril from the first upper labial ; a single postnasal, 

 often nearly as large as the anterior loreal, which is shorter than the 

 second ; 5, rarely 4 || upper labials anterior to the subocular, which is 

 not or but little narrower beneath than above. Upper temporals 

 not enlarged, or narrow and keeled ; temporal scales rather small, 



* In 2 specimens from Bitye, in -i from Madje. 



t A small azygos prefrontal in 3 specimens from Madje. 



X 3 exceptions in specimens fro)n Madje. 



§ 1 specimen from Bitye, 9 from Madje. 



II On one side in the type and in 3 specimens from Madje. 



