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sides of the head bluish, a tint especially marked on the labials ; 

 throat yellow. 



Total length 430 millim. 



Kear Niriz, cast of Shiraz, Persia. 



5, Lacerta agilis. 



Lacerta agilis, part., Linn. S. A\ i. p. .'.i(j3 ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 433. 



europaja, part., Pallas, Zooijr. Hoss.-As. iii. p. 29. 



agilis, Lkhtenst. J'erz. Doiibl. Mus. Berl. p. 94 j Bedriaga, Ahh. 



Smckenb. Ges. xiv. 1886, p. 127. 



Habit stouter, snout shorter than in L. vlridls. Rostral not 

 touching the nostril ; one or two postnasals ; frequently two super- 

 posed anterior loreals ; normally four upper labials anterior to the 

 subocular ; no granules between the supraoculars and the supra- 

 ciliaries ; occipital small, shorter and usually narrower than the 

 interparietal ; temples covered with flat scales ; two or three large 

 temporals in contact with the parietal ; no tympanic. Gular fold 

 feebly marked, or absent. 14 to 22 gular scales on a line between 

 the collar and the third pair of chin-shields ; collar with serrated 

 edge, composed of 7 to 11 plates. Dorsal scales hexagonal, strongly 

 keeled, larger on the sides, where they are feebly keeled or smooth ; 

 two or three lateral scales correspond to the length of a ventral 

 plate ; 34 to 52 scales across the middle of the body. Yentral 

 plates in 6 or 8 longitudinal series, the second series on each side 

 from the 'median ventral line the largest ; 2-5 to 32 transverse series. 

 The hind limb never reaches beyond the elbow of the adpressed 

 fore limb. Foot not, or but very slightly, longer than the head. 

 Femoral pores 10 to 18. Tail once and a half to once and two 

 thirds the length of head and body ; upper caudal scales strongly 

 keeled, pointed posteriorly. 



Northern and Central Europe ; "Western Asia. 



A. Forma typica. 



Lacerta agilis, Gray, Cat. p. 32. 



Lacerta agilis, part., Linn. I. c. ; Schulz, Faun. March, p. 448. 



Seps argus, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 61, pi. i. fig. 5. 



ruber, Laur. I. c. p. 62, pi. iii. fig, 3. 



Cferulescens, Laur. I. c. pi. i. fig. 3. 



stellatus, Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. p. 206. 



Lacerta agihs. Wolf, in Sturm, DeutscM. Faun. ; Brandt Sf Ratzeh. 

 Med. Zool. pi. xix. fig. 1; Bonap. Faun. Ital.; Tschudi, Neue. 

 Benkschr. Allgern. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. i. 1837, no. 4, p. 21 ; Bell, 

 Brit. Rept. p. 17 ; Leydig, Deutschl. Saur. p. 197. 



stirpium, Baud. Rept. iii. p. 155, pi. xxxv. fig. 2 ; M.-Edw. Atm. 



Sc. Nat. xvi. 1829, pp. 65, 83 ; Duges, A7in. Sc. Nat. xvi. 1829, 

 p. 377; Jenyns, Man. Brit. VeH. p. 291; Bum. Sf Bibr. v. p. 196 ; 

 Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 75. 



laurentii, Baud. I. c. ^. 227. 



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