4. LACEETA. 35 



Head and body mucli depressed ; snout rather long, obtuse, 

 llostral not entering the nostril ; a single postnasal ; four upper 

 labials anterior to the subocular ; a series of granules between the 

 sui)raoculars and the supraciliaries ; occipital as broad as but much 

 shorter than the interparietal ; temporal scales granular ; masseteric 

 ])lato present or absent, supratemporal and tympanic ])resent. Gular 

 fold scarcely distinct ; gular scales small, 25 to 3U on a line betweea 

 the collar and the third pair of chin-shields ; collar even-edged, with 

 (7 to) 10 plates. Dorsal scales small, convex, smooth, roundish, 

 juxtaposed, not smaller on the sides, where three correspond to the 

 length of a ventral plate ; 48 to GO scales across the middle of 

 the body. Ventral plates in G longitudinal series, the median and 

 the outer scries much narrower than the two others ; 25 to 27 

 transverse scries; additional lateral plates absent. Prajanal plate 

 bordered by two semicircles of small plates. The hind limb 

 reaches the shoulder in the male (not so far in the female). Scales 

 on upper surface of tibia larger than dorsals, rhomboidal, keeled. 

 Femoral pores 17 or 18 (to 22). Tail not twice as long as head 

 and body ; caudal scales truncate, upper strongly keeled, the basal 

 ones somewhat tubercular. Olive-grey above, with irregular small 

 black spots, and round light spots on the sides; lower surfaces 

 whitish (in spirit). 



millim. millim. 



Total length 177 From end of snout to 



Head 15 vent 72 



Width of head 10 Fore limb 24 



From end of snout to Hind limb 38 



fore limb 25 Tail (reproduced) . . 105 



This species falls into two varieties, which have been named by 

 Bedriaga modesta and rudis. To the former, which is charac- 

 terized by smaller scales (GO across the body) and less distinctly 

 tubercular caudals, belongs the specimen in the Collection. 



Trobizond. 



a. (S • Trebizond. Turin Museum [E.]. (One of the types.) 



13. Lacerta dugesii. 



Teira punctata, Grai/, Cat. p. 33. 

 Lacerta dugesii, M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nut. xvi. 1829, pp. 71, 84 ; Bum. 



4" Bibr. V. p. 236; Bedriai/a, Arch.f. Nat. 1879, p. 330, and Abh, 



Senckenb. Ges. xiv. 186G, p. 308. 

 Teira punctata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 280. 

 Lacerta maderensis (Fitz.), Girard, U, S. E.iplor, E.iped., Herp, 



p. 200, pi. xxiv. figs. 1-8. 

 punctata, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 743. 



Head rather strongly depressed ; snout long, acuminate. Eostral 

 not entering the nostril ; two superposed postnasals ; five labials 

 anterior to the subocular ; a series of granules between the supra- 

 oculars and the supraciliaries ; occipital usually as large as or larger 



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