72 Messrs. C. R. Boettger coid L. Milller on 



head, neck, ami chest deep black. The black colour 

 gradually becomes ligliter posteriorly and, on the sides, 

 passes through bluisli grey into brown and, on the lower 

 surface, dissolves into a spotting and clouding on a reddish 

 or bluish-grey ground. Dorsal zone, especially on the 

 })Osterior third of rump and base of tail, nearly always traces 

 of the two daik longitudinal bands often found in the female 

 of Lace7'fa galloti gaUoti, Dnm. et Bibr. More or less dis- 

 tinct traces of a transverse striping only on posterior half of 

 rump, whereas in Lacerta galloti galloti, Dum. et Bibr., the 

 strongest striping is always on neck and anterior portion of 

 rump. 



These transverse bars are never green as in Lacerta 

 galloti galloti, Dum. et Bibr., but are bluish or brownisli 

 grey. Tv/o rows of blue spots of variable size and intensity 

 on sides of bod3% which are largest on anterior ])ortion of 

 rump and often almost disa])pear posteriorly. The blue spots 

 on the shoulders are always tlie largest, but never attain the 

 size and irregular shape often found in the Tenerife form. 

 A very distinctive character of the male is an enormous 

 cheek-patch of a bright blue colour, which begins below the 

 masseteric, which has the same blue colour and extends 

 anteriorly to the posterior margin of the third pair of gulars, 

 posteriorly to about midway between collar and gular fold. 

 Below, the two cheek-patciies are merely separated by a 

 narrow black zone, but even that may be absent. Limbs 

 lighter or darker brown, hind limbs with generally slightly 

 developed eye-spots. Lower margin of every second caudal 

 ring with lighter spots. 



? . By far most of the females with very distinct longi- 

 tudinal stripes. Transverse stripes only indistinctly developed 

 and only on posterior back. Female and young specimens 

 with the same gular markings as in Lacerta galloti galloti, 

 Dum. et Bibr. 



Length of head and body in the two largest measured 

 specimens : cj 112 mm., ? 98 mm. 

 distribution. Island of Palma. 



Lacerta galloti gome^'Oi, subsp. n. 



Type-localitfj. Island of Gomera. 



Type. Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt (M.), no. 6041, 2 a. 



tiize and scales. Smaller than Lacerta galloti galloti^ Dum. 

 et Bibr., and Lacerta galloti palnia', C. Bttg, et L. Miill.; 

 scales slightly different from the typical form. G pairs of 

 large chin-shield^, the last paii-, which is usually rudimentary 



