168 Iiacertidm. 



Aspistis eilwardsiana, Wagl. Sjst. Amph. p. 156 (1830). 



Notopholis edwardsiana, Wiegm. I.e. 



? Ahjira penetata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 283. 



Psanimodromus edwardsii, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Grt'n. v, p. 253 (1839). 



Psammodromus edivardsiamis, Bouap. Auii. Sc. Nat. (2) xii, 1839, 

 p. 62, pi. iv, fig. 2, and Icon. Faun. Ital., Anif. (1841). 



Psammodromns cinerens, Bonap. 11. cc. fig. 1 ; Gray, t.c. p. 39 ; 

 Lataste, Eev. Intern. Sc. iii, 1880, p. 177; Bosca, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1880, p. 274. 



Lacerta cinerea, Schinz, Eur. Faun, ii, p. 28 (1840). 



Body moderately depressed. Head small, feebly depressed, convex 

 on the occiput, If to 1| times as long as broad, its depth equal to the 

 distance between the anterior corner of the eye and the tympanum, 

 its length 3^ to 4.^- times in length to vent in males, 4 to 4| times in 

 females; snout obtusely pointed, with strong canthus and concave 

 loreal region, a little shorter than postocular part of head ; a sharp 

 keel below the eye, on the freno-ocular and subocular shields. Neck 

 as broad as or a little broader than the head. The hind limb reaches 

 the wrist or the elbow of the adpressed fore limb in females, the axil, 

 the shoulder, the collar, or a little beyond in males ; foot 1^ to 1 J 

 times length of head; digits feebly depressed, with sliarply keeled, 

 spinose lamellae inferiorly, in two series except distally. Tail a little 

 less than 1^ to a little more than 2 times as long as head and body. 



Pterygoid teetli absent. 



Nostril se})arated from the postnasal and from the first upper labial 

 by a narrow rim ; nasals forming a short or very short suture behind 

 the rostral ; frontonasal broader than long ; prefrontals forming an 

 extensive suture, unless separated l)y one or two azygos shields ; * 

 frontal 1~ to 2 times as long as broad, as long as its distance from the 

 rostral or the end of the snout, narrower behind than in front, lateral 

 borders more or less concave ; parietals as long as broad or a little 

 longer, outer l)order convex; interparietal IJ to 2 times as long as 

 broad ; occipital as lai'ge as or a little smaller than the interparietal, 

 often shorter and broader.f Four supraoculars, first very small or 

 reduced to a granule, J second longer than third, fourth small but 

 larger than first§ ; four superciliaries, rarely five, second much longer 



* 3 males from Marseilles, sinpfle females from Montpellier and Lisbon ; 

 united in a female from Mailrid. 



t Absent in a female from Seville. 



X Absent in two females from Seville. 



§ In 7 specimens from Seville the fourth supraocular is separated from the 

 frontoparietal. 



