BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-KAD. HANDL. BAND 26. APD. IV. N:0 1. 13 



In the Museum there are two specimens in different jars, 

 marked with the Drottningholm label: »Lacerta chamceleon», 

 both of which belong to the species Chamceleon vidgaris Daud. 

 (Boul. cat. Liz. III, p. 443). By Linna3us's addendum to the 

 diagnosis in Sy st. Naturce : »Variat pileo piano et carinato» it 

 is elear that he with bis Lacerta chamceleon meant diflerent 

 species of the present. Lönnberg also has shown (loc. cit. 

 pp. 15, 27) that a ChamaJeon vulgaris Daud. has been the 

 type for the description in Museum principis (Amoen. acad., 

 p. 290) while a specimen of Chamceleon gracilis Hallow is 

 taken as type in Surinamensia Grilliana (Avaoen. acad. p, 501). 



As Linna3us in his chief description (in Mus. Principis) 

 evidently meant a Chamceleon vulgaris Daud., this one must 

 maintain the Linnpean name, and thus be called Chamseleon 

 Chamseleon L. 



Total length 245 mm.; length of the bod}^ (to the vent) 133 mm. 

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Lacerta salamandra. 



Linnffius in Amoen. acad. Tom. I, N:o V, p. 131, N:o 17; Mus. 

 Ad. Frid. /, p. 45; Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 204. Syn. in Boulenger'8 

 Catalogue of the Batrachia gradientia, London 1882, p. 3, 6'alamandra 

 maculosa Laur. 



There is one specimen of this type from Mus. Drottnh. 

 a true Salamandra maculosa^ the name of which therefore 

 ought to be (as also Lönnberg says) Salamandra Salamandra (L.). 

 Total length 150 mm.; length of the body (to the vent) 79 mm. 



Lacerta gecko. 



Linnseus in Amoen. acad. Tom. I. N:o V, p. 133, N:o 19 and 

 N:o XI, p. 292, N:o 17; Mus. Ad. Frid. /, p. 46; Syst. Nat. Ed. X, 

 p. 205. 



Quensel records that four specimens of this type were 

 to be found in the museum in 1802, and though he does not 

 use the usual mark »Mus. Brottn.» after the figure, he puts 

 an »ipsiss.» after the reference to Mus. Ad. Frid. i, which 

 npsiss.-» indicates that the type for the description in Mus. 

 Ad. Frid. I is to be found in the museum. Whether Quen- 

 sel meant that all four specimens should be from Mus. Drott- 

 ningholmense is impossible to say. Swartz mentions three 

 Linnean specimens. 



