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



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

 adoption. 



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

 p. 6 (1868), substituted for the earlier Clymene of the same author, 

 P. Z. S. 1864, p. 2.S7. There is, however, a well-known genus of 

 extinct Cephalopnds so named by Minister (' Beitiage zur Petre- 

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

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



Prodelphinus of Gervais ('Osteogiraphie des Cetaces,' p. 604, 1880) 

 must therefore be substituted for Clymenia as the generic appellation 

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

 the bony palate. 



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

 Globicephala, or G/obicephalus as it is now commonly written, is 

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

 Pelletier and Serville (' Encyclopedic Me'thodique,' 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. Botjlenger, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived June 12, 1884.] 



(Plate XXXVIII.) 



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

 specimens of a highly interesting variety of Lacerta viridis, which 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 

 &c. In 1878, however, Bedriaga 2 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 occipital, as in L. ocellata, and distinctly keeled dorsal scales, 

 as in L. viridis. In 1880, Lataste 3 , 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 hitherto 



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

 series is reckoned. 



2 Arch. f. Naturg. 1878, p. 299. 3 'Le Naturaliste,' 18S0, p. 306. 



