418 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON A NEW VARIETY [Jllliel/, 



fore, that this notice may be in time to prevent their more general 

 adoption. 



llieseare : — 1. Clymenia, Gray, Synopsis of Whales and Dolphins 

 p. 6 (18C8), substituted for the earlier C/i/mene of the same author, 

 P. Z. S. 1804, p. 2M7. There is, liowever, a well-known genus of 

 extinct Cephalopods so named by Miinster (' Beitijige zur Petre- 

 factenkunde,' i. 1839). Clymene also was appropriated long before 

 by Savi (Syst. Annel. 1817), for a genus of Vermes. 



Prodelphinus of Gervais ('Osteos:raphie des Cetaces,' p. 604, 1880) 

 must tlierefore be substituted for Chjmenia as the generic appellation 

 q1 the smaller, narrow-beaked Dolphins without lateral grooves on 

 the bony yialate. 



2. Globiceps, proposed as a modification of Lesson's hybrid 

 GIoLicephala, or Globicephalus as it is now commonly written, is 

 already preoccupied, as a genus of Hemipterous insects, by Le 

 Pelletier and Serville ('Encyclpj)edie Methodique,' x. 1825). It will 

 be necessary therefore to return to Lesson's name. 



5. Description of a new Variety of Lacerta viridis, from 

 South Portugal, By G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived June 12, 1884.] 



(Plate XXXVIIL) 



During a recent journey in Portugal, Dr. II. Gadow collected several 

 specimens of a highly interesting variety o{ Lacerta virtdis, whicii he 

 has kindly handed over to me lor description. 1 have great pleasure 

 in naming it 



Lacerta viridis, var. gadovii. 



A few years ago a wide gap seemed to exist between the two well- 

 known species L. viridis and L. ocellata : the former with a very 

 small occipital, large rhomboidal, strongly keeled dorsal scales, six or 

 eight' longitudinal rows of ventral plates, the young longitudinally 

 lined, &c. ; the latter with enormous occipital, small granular smooth 

 dorsal scales, eight or ten rows of ventral plates, the young ocellated 

 (fee. In 1878, however, Bedriaga^ brought to light a new species 

 nearly intermediate between the two long-known types, L. schreiberi, 

 from the Province Asturias in N. Spain ; this Lizard has a very 

 large occi})ital, as in L. ocellata, and distinctly keeled dorsal scales, 

 as in L. viridis. In 1880, Lataste', turning his attention to the 

 herpetological fauna of Algeria, showed that the L. ocellata of N.W. 

 Africa was not identical with the European L. ocellata, as iiitherto 



' According to whether or not the outer, smaller, and more or less irregular, 

 series is reckoned. 



^ Arch. f. Naturg. 1878, p. 299. » 'Le Naturaliste,' 1880, p. 306. 



