LACERTA MURALIS [IN WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA. 381 
for its pale green coloration with peculiar markings. This he proposed to designate 
as var. brueggemannt, after his friend the late Dr. F. Briiggemann, and regarded it as 
unquestionably forming the passage from the typical form to the var. neapolitana. 
He describes the head as rather strongly depressed, the masseteric disk small or absent, 
and the caudal scales slightly pointed. The largest specimen measures 180 millim., of 
which the tail takes up 120. The females are more “simply coloured” and more of 
a greenish brown than the males, of which he gives the following description from 
life :—Ground-colour yellowish green or pale green, with fine wavy black cross-streaks 
iorming a network on the sides, which encloses many pale blue spots, the meshes on 
the shoulder considerably larger and representing the ocellus characteristic of the 
var. neapolitana. Upper surface of head brown, spotted with green. Limbs grey or 
green above, with pale green ocelli. Upper surface of tail greenish brown, with dark 
brown zigzag markings. Belly whitish, spotted with black, one spot to each shield; 
the outer series of ventral shields entirely blue; lower surface of head with white, 
black-edged ocelli. 
‘The British Museum now fortunately possesses one of the type specimens (received 
from Dr. de Bedriaga) from which the above description was taken; and, quite recently, 
Mr. Bryan Hook presented to the Museum several specimens, captured by him on 
walls at Lerici, near Spezia, which agree with the types in most respects. Specimens 
from Genoa, Sestri Ponente, Portofino, Rapallo, and Bologna have also been received 
from Dr. Gestro, Prof. Camerano, Dr. Wolterstorff, and Dr. Werner. I have besides 
examined several specimens from Livorno and Bellagio belonging to the Basle 
Museum; and one from Mount Meta, Terra di Lavoro, belonging to the Museum 
of Naples University—this being the southernmost point whence this variety has 
hitherto been reported. 
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