306 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE VARIETIES OF 
or reticulate with black, without or with mere traces of the light lateral streaks 
(Plate XXIV. fig. 1). Upper surface of head usually more or less dotted or spotted 
with black. Sometimes a well-defined black ocellus, with white or green centre, above 
the shoulder or axil 4. 
Black and white spots on the sides of the tail, usually forming regular bars. 
Lower parts white or yellow in females, white, pink, yellow, orange, or brick-red 
in males; blue spots on the outer row of ventral plates, especially in males; belly 
usually immaculate, or with scattered black dots in females, more or less spotted with 
black in males. In some specimens from Dinant, in Belgium (Plate XXIV. fig. 2), 
the black spots are confluent into longitudinal bands on the sides of the belly. 
Young, just out of the egg, are dark grey above with round or vermicular lighter 
spots; a black vertebral line is often present; the two lateral streaks are usually very 
distinct and formed of more or less confluent white spots ; the blackish band between 
them, continued from the temple, bears small round white spots ; limbs blackish, spotted 
with white; lower parts white. (See text-fig. 4a, p. 369, and text-fig. 6 a, p. 399.) 
Measurements of adults (in millimetres) :— 
1 2. 3. 4, 5 6 
From snout to vent 72 67 62 60 57 59 
55 ay uel) 6 5 6 o nm cs 22 25 21 24 21 
ILe@naHaA ORIN 6 6 o » a 6 6 o Ie 14. 16 14. 15 13 
Wingin @ilerl 6 5g » o 6 5 o a Wl 9 ll 9 9 9 
IDepthvotsh ead mss ir-ie- men 9 7 8 7 7 7 
Horeslimby. Mees ce ess eo eh eo. 20 23 19 20 18 
lBhmelitimy 4 c 5 @ 6 6 5 6 5 OF 30 35 30 30 26 
HQ) AL Se Oe, Saeicmicr sc ac. ae peed) 17 19 16 Wey 14 
MITIEY 2 Wee ems ee foi a) eh NOR ch Tse se Bee NOP S ies 
* Tail reproduced. 
. Glenan Isles, Brittany (Gard). 
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. ¢@. Eaux-Bonnes, Pyrenees (Lataste). 
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Herkulesbad, Hungary (Méhely). 
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In the following table I give the size and record variations in the lepidosis in a 
number of adult specimens in the British Museum or in the Lataste Collection :— 
1 ie tae ls 6. in 
Nr. St. Malo . J.) g NGG Se ee Tl sore 1s a 
. ~ Ath ER 2 9" 36GsoA SOS ameeG 20°" ol 
. 9. 620850" 828. 9086 819 fi 
r 9 58 50 29 9 2 20-22 2 
1 Very well marked in some specimens from Paris, the Pyrenees, and the Alps near Randa. 
