48 Lacertidpe. 



Measurements (iu millimetres) : 



1. 2. 



From end of suout to veut ... 72 77 



fore limb . . 29 30 



Length of head 18 18 



Width of head 13 13 



Depth of head 10 11 



Fore limb 26 25 



Hind limb 45 39 



Foot 21 19 



Tail 115 — 



1. cJ, Guelt-es-Stal. 2. 9 , Daya. 



Habitat. — Oran and neighbouring- parts of the Province ; also near 

 Nemours and on the Plateaux. — The specimens from Telouet, Moi'occo, 

 mentioned by Chabanaud, probably belong to this variety. 



Var. BLANCI, Doumergue. 



Agrees with the vars. mauritanicus and lineomaculatus in the shape 

 and strong carination of the scales on the body. 



Suture between the internasals } to } the length of the fronto- 

 nasal, which is sometimes longitudinally divided into two* ; some- 

 times an azygos shield incompletely separating the j^refrontalsf ; 

 distance between the second loreal and t\\o anterior supraocular 

 exceeding the length of the latter in the adult ; usually a single series 

 of granules between the suj)raoculars and the superciliaries,! of which 

 there are 6 or 7 ; suliocular not reaching the oral margin, § wedged in 

 between the fourth and fifth upper labials. Tail l^V to a little over 

 2 times length of head and body. 



54 to 68 scales across the middle of the body. 18 to 25 femoral 

 pores. 19 to 23 lamella3 under the fourth toe. 



Young blackish altove, with 4 yellow streaks along the back and 

 two on each side, with a yellow vertebral streak confined to the nape; 

 series of round yellow spots along the dark bands ; lit-ad variegated 

 with black and yellow ; tail bluish lieneath at the l)ase, decidedly blue 

 at the end. Adult grey or somewhat rufous, with the markings of 

 the young much (effaced ; a lateral series of yellow spots or ocelli. A 

 large male in the Paris Museum has four chains of white, Idack-edged 

 ocelli along the back. 



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* In two siieciniens. 



t In five specimens. 



X In two specimens there are two. 



§ Except in oiic anale from Cape Bon. 



