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86. PARAPRISTIPOMA MEDITERRANEUM. 
Diagramma mediterraneum Guichenot, Expl. Algerie, 45, pl. 3, 1850 (Algiers). 
Hapitat: Western Mediterranean. 
Etymology: From Mediterranean Sea. 
This species is not uncommon in the eastern Mediterranean, ‘The 
specimen examined by us (22429, M. C. Z.) is from Cadiz in Spain. 
87. PARAPRISTIPOMA VIRIDENSE. (Burro; Corvinato.) 
Pristipoma viridense Cuv. & Val., v, 287, 1830 (Cape Verde Islands). 
Pristipoma octolineatum Cuv. & Val., 1x, 487, 1833 (Cape Verde Islands). 
Habitat: Northwest coast of Africa; south coast of Spain and the 
neighboring islands. 
Etymology: From Cape Verde—viridis, green. 
This species is known to us from descriptions. According to Stein- 
dachner it is rare on the coast of Spain (Cadiz and San Lucar de Bar- 
rameda) and common on the Canary Islands, especially about Teneriffe. 
Steindachner suggests that the name viridense, given to plainly colored 
specimens, and that of octolineatum, given to those with blue stripes, 
belong to the same species, as occasional individuals are found in which 
the blue stripes are wanting. Giinther counts 80 scales in viridense, 
and Steindachner but 55 to 57 in octolineatum. In the latter case only 
the scales having pores in the lateral line are counted, in the former 
the number of cross rows. Dr. Giinther records the species from St. 
Vincent; probably St. Vincent of the Cape Verde Islands is meant,* 
not the St. Vincent of the Lesser Antilles. According to Steindachner, 
this species lacks the median groove at the chin, and, as already 
noticed by Bleeker, it is closely related to the Japanese species, 
trilineatum, which is the type of the genus Parapristipoma. = 
*TIn confirmation of this opinion, I have the following note from my friend, Dr. 
G. A. Boulenger, of the British Museum: 
“You are perfectly right, and I had independently arrived at the same opinion as 
yourself with regard to ‘St. Vincent: McGillivray.’ You will find specimens of the 
West African Turentola delalandi from St. Vincent, Cape Verde, Macgillivray, men- 
tioned in my Catalogue of Lizards, vol. 1, p. 199.” 
