398 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE VARIETIES OF 
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6 V2 165 925 LOD 28) 2422229 
Reggio, Calabria 6 62 689726) Til 26-2329 
P “ 9 69 68 29 11 29 23-24 32 
Lipari Id. A 6973s 26 9 28 24-23 33 
Ap ‘ oS 3 75 30) 9 32 26 36 
Stromboli Id . OD omenG aes 9 382 24-25 33 
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Bosco di Marineo, Palermo ¢@ 70 65 27 IJ1 25 22-23 £30 
(Pl. XXVIII. figs. 4, 4 a). 
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Bedriaga, in his Monograph of 1886 (p. 190), records the typical form (his fusca) 
from Messina, but without particulars. Specimens from Messina, bearing a consider- 
able resemblance in form and markings to the typical L. mwralis, have been presented to 
the British Museum by Count Peracca, but in their scaling they agree with var. serpa. 
An aberrant male specimen from Cosenza, Calabria, has been sent to me by Count 
Peracca, with the request that I should decide whether it must be referred to the 
vat, serpa or to the var. nigriventris. It is, in fact, exactly intermediate between the 
two, both in form and coloration, and it approaches the specimens from Malta which 
will be described hereafter. Its lepidosis, as expressed in the above table, is:— 
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5 3. 4, 5. 6. te 
WOSeNZa, a. ac) “cals 76 66 24 9 27 22 30 
‘his would apply equally well to var. nigriventris and to var. serpa. The head is once 
and two-thirds as long as broad and its depth equals the distance between the centre of 
