28 Messrs. L. A. Lantz and O, Cyrén on 
ovate in the @, broader in the ?, broadest before the 
middle, with barely a trace of a humeral prominence in the 
9, the basal margin jointly sinuate ; the shallow striz with 
large separated punctures ; the intervals broad and with fine 
shallow punctation. Sternum rugose, but not granulate, 
except the mesosternum, which is finely aciculate. Venter 
with two oblique impressions on segment 1 behind the coxa ~ 
in the ¢ only. 
Length 8-10 mm., breadth 37-4? mm. 
Betcran Conco: Lukombe, x. 1908 (A. Koller). 
Described from 38 ¢ g and3 2 9. 
Easily distinguished from all the other known species of 
the genus by its striking coloration. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. 
Fig. 1. Leurops cana, sp. n., p. 19. 
Fig. 2. Pseudoblosyrus sharpi, sp. n., p. 22. 
Fig. 3. Pomphus dentveollis, sp. n., p. 8. 
Fig. 4. Proscopus marginatus, sp. n., p. 13. 
Fig. 5. Protostrophus spinicollis, sp. n., p. 17. 
Fig. 6. Bradybamon swale, sp. n., p. 10. 
Fig. 7. Cychrotonus ellipticus, sp. n., 3, p. 25. 
Fig. 8. Synechops irregularis, sp. n., p. 24. 
I1.—On Lacerta praticola, Eversm. By L. A. Lanrz 
and O. CyreEy. 
30ETTGER remarks, in his account of the reptiles collected 
in the Talysh by G. Radde and H. Leder*, that the two 
specimens of Lacer/a praticola examined by him differ from 
Western Caucasian specimens in having five pairs of chin- 
shields instead of six, two instead of three forming a median 
suture. The author thinks it would be possible to establish 
a local variety, should tlis character be found to be constant. 
This is indeed the case, as appears from our examination 
of a larger material collected in the same country. We 
found only isolated specimens—from the Talysh f as well as 
from the Western Caucasus {—with five chin-shields on 
* Radde, ‘Fauna u. Flora d. siidwestl. Caspigebietes,’ Leipzig, 1886, 
p. 37. 
+ One specimen out of 21. 
{ One specimen out of 48, 
