38 LACERTIDiE. 



parietal anteriorly ; tympanic "well developed. Giilar fold absent or 

 just indicated ; 2?> to 'AO liular scales on a line between the collar and 

 the third pair of chin-sliields ; collar oven-edged, with 9 to 13 sni;ill 

 plates. Dorsal scales small, fiat, smooth, roundish, juxtaposed, a 

 little smaller on the sides, where three or four correspond to the 

 length of a ventral plate ; 55 to (52 scales across the middle of the 

 body. Ventral plates broader than long, subequal, or median series 

 narrower, in 6 longitudinal series ; an additional outer series some- 

 times present, but composed of smaller plates ; 27 to 30 transverse 

 series. Pneanal bordered by one or two semicircles of small 

 plates. The adpressed hind limb reaches about the axilla in the 

 female, the shoulder or the collar in the male. Scales on upper 

 surface of cms smaller than dorsals, obtusely keeled. Femoral pores 

 21 to 26. Tail twice or more than twice as long as head and body ; 

 caudal scales truncate, upper obtuselv keeled. Olive-grey or brownish 

 above, speckled or reticulated with black, with or without roundish 

 lighter spots ; sides usually darker, with the light spots more distinct ; 

 lower surfaces greenish white (in spirit), uniform or dotted with 

 black. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 227 145 



Head 18 13 



Width of head 13 9 



From end of snout to fore limb .... 32 21 



From end of snout to vent 75 52 



Fore limb 27 20 



Hind limb 41 30 



Tail 152 93 



Asia Minor, Greece. 



a. Several specs.: c?, Zebil Biilgliar Dagh, C. G. Danford, Esq. [P.]. 



5 , & bgr. Cilician Taurus. (Types.) 



6. Hgr. Kaisarieh. C. G. Danford, Esq. [P.]. 



16. Lacerta brandtii. 



Lacerta brandtii, De Filippi, Arch. p. I. Zool. ii. 1863, p. 387, a7id 

 Viar/g. Pers. p. 3.54; Blanford, Zool. E. Pers. p. 362, pi. xx. tig. 1 ; 

 Boi'tfyer, in liadde, Faun.Flor. Casp.-Geb. p. 42 ; Bedriaga, Ahh. 



Senchenh. Ges. xiv. 1886, p. 268. 



Head moderately depressed ; snout moderate, obtusely pointed. 

 Eostral touching the nostril ; two superposed postnasals ; "^five upper 

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

 supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; occipital much smaller than the 

 interparietal ; temporal scales small, with distinct masseteric and 

 tympanic shields ; three enlarged supratemporals border the parietal. 

 Gular fold indicated ; 25 gular scales on a line between the collar 

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

 nine small plates. Dorsal scales granular, smooth, 50 to bb across 



