504 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE VARIETIES OF 
little shorter, sometimes a little longer, as long as or a little longer than the fronto- 
parietals!; parietals once and one-fourth to once and a half as long as broad, usually 
in contact with the upper postocular °, the outer border never distinctly concave for the 
reception of the supratemporal. A female specimen from Véslau, near Vienna, is remark- 
able for the very regular division of each parietal into two by a transverse suture 
(Pl. XXV. fig. 4). Occipital usually shorter than, and as broad as or narrower than, 
the interparietal, but sometimes as long as the latter and not rarely broader *; a small 
additional shield not unfrequently intercalated between the two. A series of granules 
between the major (second and third) supraoculars and the supraciliaries; the first 
or the first and second supraciliaries usually in contact with the second supraocular 
(Pl. XXV. fig. 1), but the series of granules sometimes complete, extending from the 
first supraocular to the upper postocular. 
The specimen from near Vienna, noticed above as having the parietal shield 
divided, is further anomalous in the total absence of the first supraocular (PI. XXV. 
fig. 4). Postnasal single*; nasal usually separated from the anterior loreal by the 
postnasal®. Temporal scales small, often granular; masseteric disk and. tympanic 
shield nearly always present®; masseteric disk usually large, round or oval, and 
separated from the parietal by a supratemporal shield or one or two, rarely three, series 
of scales. Four upper labials anterior to the subocular, very rarely three or five, 
and on one side only ; subocular very variable in shape’. 20 to 30 scales and granules 
in a straight line between the symphysis of the chin-shields and the median collar- 
plate; gular fold usually distinct, indicated by one, two, or three series of minute 
granules. Collar without, or with merely a trace of, serration, composed of 7 to 12 
plates, usually 9 to 11 (not including the outer, smaller plates which are separated 
from the edge by granules). 
Scales on body granular, juxtaposed, round or oval-subhexagonal, more or less 
distinctly keeled, rarely smooth 8, often a little larger on the back than on the 
1 Shortest frontal, measuring only three-fifths its distance from end of snout, in a male from St. Malo 
(Pl. XXY. fig. 3). 
° Exceptions in three specimens from Glenan Isles and in three from Haux-Bonnes. I must here correct a 
lapsus in my description of Lacerta depressa (P. Z.S. 1904, ii. p. 333) where “upper supraocular” should 
read ‘“ upper postocular.” 
’ Occipital very minute, almost reduced to a granule, in one specimen from Dinant. 
4 Absent, fused with the anterior loreal, in a specimen from St. Malo; divided into two in a female from 
Paris (Lataste Collection). 
’ Exceptions, in which the nasal joins the anterior loreal above the postnasal, are not at all unfrequent ; 
[ have noticed them in specimens from St. Malo, Glenan Isles, Eaux-Bonnes, Odilienberg, and Randa, 
6 Absent in a specimen from St. Malo and in one from Eaux-Bonnes. 
7 Its lower border sometimes as long as its upper border, a character which has been given as diagnostic of 
L. depressa. 
8 Tn two specimens from Dinant, Belgium. 
