2S Messr?. L. A. Lantz and O. Cj-rdn on 



ovate in the c? ? broader in the ? , broadest before the 

 middle, with barely a trace of a humeral prominence in the 

 ? , the basal margin jointly sinuate ; the shallow striae witli 

 large separated punctures ; the intervals broad and with fine 

 shallow punctation. Sternum rugose, but not granulate, 

 except the mes )steinum, which is finely aciculate. Venter 

 with two oblique impressions on segment 1 behind the coxa 

 in the ^ only. 



Length 8-10 mm., breadth -Sf-lf mm. 



Belgian Coxgo : Lukombe, x. 1908 {A. Koller). 



Described From 3 c? c? and 3 ? ? . 



Easily distinguished from all the other known species of 

 the genus by its striking coloration. 



EXPLANATIOX OF PLATE I. 



Fif/. 1. Lenrops cana, ep. r.., p. 19. 

 Fi(i, 2. Pseudohlosyrus sharjn, sp. n., p. 22. 

 Fif/. 3. Poinphus denticoUis, sp. n., p. 8. 

 Fi(i. 4. Proscopus marginatus, sp. n., p. 13. 

 Fif/. o. Profostrophus spinicollis, sp. n., p. 17. 

 Fig. G. Bradgbamon sioalei, sp. n., p. 10. 

 Fig. 7. Cgchrotrmus ellipticus, sp. n., c? , p. 2-5. 

 Fig. 8. Synechops irregularis, sp. n., p. 24. 



II. — On Lacerta praticola, Eversm. By L. A. Lantz 

 and O. Cyr^n. 



BoETTGER remarks, in his account of the reptiles collected 

 in the Talysh by G. Radde and H. Leder"^, that the two 

 specimens of Lacerta praticola examined by him differ from 

 Western Caucasian specimens in having five pairs of cliin- 

 shields instead of six, two instead of three forming a median 

 suture. The author thinks it would be possible to establish 

 a local variety, should this character be found to be constant. 

 This is indeed the case, as appears from our examination 

 of a larger material collected in the same country. We 

 found only isolated specimens — from the Talysh f as well as 

 from the Western Caucasus I — with five chin-shields on 



* Radde, ' Fauna u. Flora d. siidwestl. Caspigebietes,' Leipzig-, 1886, 

 p. 37. 



t One specimen out of 21. 

 X One specimen out of 43. 



