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ME. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE 



L. horvathi is to stand as a species. In fact, one of these two specimens, obtained by 



Dr. Gadow at Burbia, Spain, and of which particulars follow, bears a most striking 



resemblance to L. horvatki. Both specimens are again females ; the male of this 

 variety is still unknown. 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 



? 70 52 39 8 26 15-14 23 



„ 64 50 28 9 23 18-17 26 



The larger specimen, which is blotched with black on the back, the larger spots 

 forming a pair of vertebral series, differs from the types in the lower number of femoral 

 pores (14-15 instead of 17-20), in having the series of granules between the supra- 

 oculars and the supraciliaries incomplete, and in the absence of a masseteric disk, the 

 temple being covered with small irregular shields. The parietal forms a short suture 



Text-flff. 3. 



A. E. typica. 



Var. hocagi 



S D 

 D. Var. monticola. 



with the upper postocular. The smaller specimen, in which the back is olive-brown, 

 with a few black dots, bordered on each side by a sharply-defined blackish-brown band, 

 has the anterior loreal divided into two superposed shields, an azygous shield separates 

 the praefrontals, the anterior supratemporal forms a suture with the fourth supra- 

 ocular, and the posterior dorsal scales are feebly but very distinctly keeled. The 

 temporal scutellation of this specimen (PI. XVI. fig. 14) is interesting, as it repro- 

 duces the condition described by Prof. Mehely in L. horvathi (1909, p. 602) : "Es ist 

 von hervorragender Wichtigkeit, dass das Massetericun tief unten liegt und wahrend es 

 vom Supratemporale meist durch zwei Schildchen getrennt wird, stosst es mit dera 

 nachsten Supralabiale oft zusammen, oder es wird von demselben hochstens durch ein 

 Schildchen getrennt ; ein ahnliches Verhalten ist mir von keiner anderen Lacerta 

 bekannt " *. The scutellation of the lower surface of the tibia corresponds to 

 Mebely's figure on pi. xxiv. fig. 3. 



* See further on, p. 148 (var. hrueggemanni). 



