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Of the three Linnean specimens one is a Lacerta ocellata 

 Daud. var. pater Lataste. It is of a uniform green colonr 

 without black bands, having about 75 scales round the 

 body and an occipital as broad as the frontal and somewhat 

 broader than its own length. The second specimen is a true 

 Lacerta muralis (Laur.), and the third is a Lacerta agilis L. 

 et auctores. As Linnteus in his Lacerta agilis embraces not 

 only the forms of the present genus Lacerta that exist in 

 Sweden, but also those from the whole of Europé, it is quite 

 natural to iind all these three forms, now considered as di- 

 stinct species, bearing the same Linnean name, which name 

 ought to be given to the swedish species — as is also after- 

 wards done by the authors — which form certainly was the 

 nearest type for Linn8eus's Lacerta agilis. 



Lacerta ocellata. Total length 390 miii. ; length of the body (to 

 the vent) 126 mm. 



Lacerta muralis. Total length 212 mm.; length of the body (to 

 the vent) 76 mm. 



Lacerta agilis. Total length 170 mm.; length of the body (to 

 the vent) 71 mm. 



Lacerta principalis. 



LinuEBus in Amoen. acad. Tom. I, N:o XI, p. 286, N:o 11; Mus. 

 Ad. Frid. /, p. 43; Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 201. 



There are three specimens of this Linnean type recorded 

 in Quensels catalogue, of Avhich one, according to him, belongs 

 to the Drottningholm collections. Of the two specimens, 

 marked Lacerta princij^alis, which at present remain in the 

 museum from the time of Quensel, both are Iguana fuberculata 

 Laur. Neither is signed with Drottningholm label, and it 

 is impossible that Linnseus by his description in Ämoenitates 

 academicce, which he refers to in Mus. Ad. Frid., meant 

 this species, though Quensel curiously enough seems to have 

 been of that opinion. Where the third specimen, recorded 

 by Quensel. is, and which probably has been the Linnean 

 type, is not known. Boulenger marks with? the Linnean 

 name svnonymous to Anolis carolinensis Dum. et Bibr. (Boul. 

 cat. Liz. II, p. 43), and Lönnberg says (loc. cit., p. 14): »It» 

 (the Linnean type-specimen for Lacerta principalis) »belongs 

 to the same group of species as Anolis carolinensis Dum. et 

 Bibr., but it cannot be ascertained which species it repre- 



