176 ME. G. A. BOULENGEE ON THE 



Measurements (in millimetres) : — 



d. 



From end of snout to vent 50 



„ „ „ fore limb .... 19 



Length of head 14 



Width of head 7 



Depth of head 5"5 



Fore limb 16 



Hind limb 26 



Foot 15 



Tail 80 



* Eeproduced. 



The size is often larger than in the var. lissana, but the proportions are the same. 

 The hind limb reaches the shoulder or the collar in males, the elbow of the adpressed 

 fore limb or the axil in females. The dorsal scales are usually less distinctly keeled, 

 and those on the flanks are always smooth ; 35 to 48 scales on the middle of the 

 back correspond to the length of the head. Collar sometimes entire, sometimes 

 feebly serrated. First and second supraciliaries in contact with the first supraocular. 

 Masseteric disk large and often in contact with the supratemporal. 5 anterior upper 

 labials in 10 per cent, of the specimens examined (on one side in six specimens, on both 

 sides in one). This insular form has a tendency to lose the occipital shield, in fact, it 

 is entirely absent in the fii'st and fifth specimens of the above list ; it is small and 

 separated from the interparietal in 13 out of the 20 specimens examined, in which 

 case the parietals form a short median suture, small and just touching the inter- 

 parietal in 3, forming a narrow suture with the interparietal in 2. 



Dark brown to nearly black above, with the markings of the var. lissana more or 

 less distinct, at least in certain lights. Females have a black vertebral streak, some- 

 times light-edged, and a light dorso-lateral streak extends from the supraciliary edge 

 to the tail ; males have more the style of markings represented in the specimen from 

 Lagosta (see PI. XIX. fig. 10). The lower parts are black, or of a blackish steel- 

 blue, with pale blue spots on the sides ; in the males these blue spots are large and 

 often form a continuous band along the outer row of ventral shields, in the females 

 they are small or very indistinct. The broken tail is sometimes regenerated black 

 or blackish, but more often brown above and whitish beneath. 



According to Scherer, the young do not differ from the lizards of Lissa in colour. 



Specimens from the Scoglio Kamik, west of St. Andrea, near Lissa, have been named 

 Yav. galvac/nii (Werner, Mitth. Naturw. Ver. Univ. Wien, vi. 1908, p. 49). They 

 differ from the Melisello lizards in the absence of blue on the sides of the belly, 

 being uniform black or blackish. By their heavy form and thick tail, they remind 

 one of the var. lilfordi melanos, but the scaling is the same as in var. melisellensis, 



