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on the side for the accommodation of a large supratemporal *, which is sometimes in 

 contact with the fourth supraocular and sometimes not ; temporal scales granular ; 

 masseteric disk usually very large, sometimes moderate or small, sometimes divided into 

 two; tympanic shield large; four upper labials anterior to the subocularf. 21 to 29 

 scales and granules in a straight line between the symphysis of the chin-shields and the 

 median collar-plate ; gular fold usually feebly marked or indistinct ; collar-edge entire 

 or feebly serrated ; 8 to 11 collar-plates. 



Scales on body granular, flat, smooth, equal in size, 40 to 53 across the middle of the 

 body, 25 to 31 corresponding to the length of the head, 3 or 2 and 3 to one ventral plate. 



Ventral plates in 6 longitudinal series and 28 to 30 transverse series J ; the plates of 

 the two median series narrower than the others or equal to the outer. Prseanal plate 

 large, bordered by one semicircle of smaller plates, often preceded by a transversely 

 enlarged plate. 



Scales on upper surface of tibia smaller than dorsals, smooth or feebly keeled. 

 15 to 20 femoral pores on each side. 24 to 28 lamellar scales under the fourth toe. 



Caudal scales forming alternately longer and shorter whorls, the two median dorsal 

 series more or less distinctly enlarged; scales truncate and diagonal, strongly keeled, 

 especially on the sides, the outline of which is distinctly serrated, though not to the 

 same extent as in the var. riodis ; 18 to 26 scales in the fourth or fifth whorl behind 

 the postanal granules. 



Both sexes are alike in coloration. Back greyish brown or olive-brown, usually 

 separated from the darker brown sides by a series of round white spots, which may be 

 black-edged and ocellar ; head and back with small, irregular, often vermicular black 

 markings ; side§ often with large, light, black-edged ocellar spots. Uniform yellow or 

 yellowish white beneath, the outer roAV of ventrals blue, or with a series of blue spots, 

 in both sexes. An account of the coloration of fresh specimens is given by Werner. 



According to Werner, the male may reach a length of 204 mm., whilst the female 

 does not exceed 175. 



The following measurements (in millimetres) are from specimens in the British 



Museum : — 



lelenovka. Bitliynian 



f — -^ ^ Olympus. Mesopotamia. 



cJ. ?. ?. c?. 2. 



From end of snout to vent .... 58 70 70 68 75 



„ „ fore limb ... 22 22 22 23 25 



Length of head 13 14 15 14 15 



Width of head 9 9 10 9 10 



Depth of head . 6 6 6 6 6 



Fore limb 21 21 20 21 22 



Hind limb 30 30 29 31 30 



Foot 15 16 15 16 16 



* Hardly at all in one of the lelenovka specimens, which is here figured, 

 t 5 in one specimen from lenelovka. + 26 to ^2, fide Werner. 



