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instead of 22 to 29, usually 24 to 26, as well as by an average larger size, I think it 

 may perhaps be kept distinct from that widely distributed form. 



According to Werner, the Lissa Lizard is never green, does not even show a trace of 

 green. Upper parts grey or coffee-colour, the dorsal region unspotted or with dark 

 brown spots or marblings, sometimes separated from the much spotted lateral region 

 by a light streak; a dark vertebral streak, formed of a series of spots, which does not 

 begin behind the occiput, but further back, about the middle of the body. In males 

 the belly is red, without spots, except on the sides, which bear large blue spots on the 

 outer row of ventral shields ; in females it is white. 



This description applies also to the lizards from Lagosta, except that the upper 

 parts may be green, that some among them have the dark vertebral streak originating 

 on the nape, and that others have the markings very indistinct. The blue spots on the 

 sides of the belly may occupy the whole outer series of shields, forming a continuous 

 broad band. 



Male specimens, stated to be from Lissa, which I received alive through the great 

 kindness of M. G. de Southoff, of Florence, had the nape and the anterior part of the 

 back light green, the upper surface of the head, the sides, the limbs, and the tail 

 brown ; two or three blue ocelli above the shoulder ; large blue spots on the outer row 

 of ventrals, in one specimen forming a continuous band ; throat and belly white, or 

 yellow tinged with orange. 



I have examined the following 14 specimens, all except the fifth and sixth 

 (M. de Southoff) from Dr. Werner's Collection : — 



Lissa, (J , type 



Lagosta, (J 



A description of the form and scaling would be almost entirely a repetition of that 

 of the vox . fiumana. I will only observe that, whereas the collar is feebly serrated in 

 the specimens from Lissa, as in ya.Y . fiumana, it is entire in those from Lagosta. The 



