406 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE VARIETIES OF 
Lacerta muralis neapolitana, part., Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, p. 274. 
Lacerta muralis fusca Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1883, p. 268, and Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. 1886, p. 175. 
Lacerta muralis fusca, vay. corsica Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1883, p. 269, and op. cit. p. 177, 
Lacerta taurica genei Camerano, Mon. Saur, Ital. p. 49 (1885). 
Lacerta muralis genei Camerano, Boll. Mus. Zool. Torin. i. 1886, no. 7. 
Lacerta muralis neapolitana, var. lineata Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. 1886, p. 213. 
Lacerta muralis, var. genet Méhely, Ann. Mus. Hung. ii. 1904, pp. 365 & 366. 
Head (Pl. XXVIII. fig. 6) about once and a half to once and two-thirds as long 
as broad, moderately depressed, its depth in the tympanic region equalling the distance 
between the anterior border or the centre of the eye and the anterior border of the 
tympanum ; snout pointed. Neck as broad as the head. Body moderately depressed. 
Hind limb reaching the collar or between the collar and the ear in males, the 
shoulder or the collar in females; foot once and one-fourth to once and a half as 
long as the head; toes rather long and slender, more compressed than in the typical 
form. ‘ail once and three-fourths to twice and one-fifth as long as head and body. 
Rostral shield narrowly separated from the nostril or, frequently, entering it; nasals 
forming a suture behind the rostral!; frontal as long as its distance from the end of 
the snout; a series of granules between the supraciliaries and the two principal supra- 
oculars, this series either complete or beginning behind the first supraciliary 2; parietals 
once and one-fourth to once and a half as long as broad, often® not touching the 
upper postocular; occipital often as long as and broader than the interparietal; a 
single postnasal 4; temporal scales small and granular; tympanic and masseteric plates 
always present, the latter separated from the parietal by one to three series of scales ; 
upper temporal shield small, often broken up into scales; normally four labials anterior 
to the subocular ®. 
Collar even-edged, with 9 to 13 plates; gular fold distinct ; 27 to 40 scales on a line 
between the symphysis of the chin-shields and the median collar-plate. 
Dorsal scales small, round or oval, very convex, smooth or feebly keeled, 56 to 78 
across the middle of the body, 5 and 4, 4, or 4 and 5 transverse series corresponding to 
one ventral plate, 40 to 57 to the length of the head. Ventral plates in 6 longitudinal 
series®, Anal plate rather small, usually bordered by two semicircles of small plates. 
‘ T have noted two exceptions, in specimens from Orezza and Ajaccio, in which the rostral forms a narrow 
suture with the frontonasal, and Méhely mentions another in a specimen from Bonifatto, Corsica. 
2 The series is complete in 20 specimens out of 45 from Corsica, and in 4 out of 13 from Sardinia. 
$ In 11 specimens from Ajaccio, and in one from Corte, Corsica. 
* F. Miller (Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1882, p. 156) has mentioned two postnasals in two specimens from 
Ajaccio, but this appearance is simply due to the intercalation of a small shield between the nasal and the 
loreal, well above the nostril. 
5 Five on hoth sides in two specimens from Ajaccio, five on one side only in three specimens, and three in 
two specimens. 
® Jn one specimen from Corte, Corsica, a few of the plates of the outer row are divided into two. 
