190 ME. G. A. BOULENGEE ON THE 



As stated above, examples of this variety are referred by Mehely to two subspecies 

 oi L. saxicola, which are thus differentiated in the key on p. 492. 



Limbs long, hind limb of ^ reaching shoulder or collar, of female wrist or 

 middle of fore arm ; 41-45 scales across middle of body, not larger 

 towards the belly, 3 corresponding to one ventral plate; gular scales 

 20-23 ; 4 rows of small shields under the thigh ; femoral pores 14-18. Subsp. armeniaca. 



Limbs short, hind limb of $ reaching only the elbow or the axil ; 47-51 

 scales across middle of body, distinctly larger towards the belly, 3 or 3 

 corresponding to one ventral plate ; gular scales 25-29 ; 5 or 6 rows 

 of small shields under the thigh ; femoral pores 16-19 Snhs-^. bithynica. 



The only male specimen from lelenovka {armeniaca Mehely) at my disposal could 

 not be determined by means of this synopsis, as it falls in the second division as 

 regards the length of the hind limb, and in the first as regards the number of dorsal 

 and gular scales. There is nothing distinctive in the character of the scales near the 

 belly, and although it is true the female from the Bithynian Olympus {Mthynica Mehely) 

 differs from the specimens from lelenovka in having 4 instead of 3 series of small 

 shields between the large femoral shields and the pores * as well as a slightly greater 

 number of dorsal and gular scales, these characters are too slight to justify the 

 establishment of a variety, and besides they are found to break down if put to the 

 test of larger series than Mehely had the privilege of examining. The same author 

 mentions and figures a single specimen in which the first supraocular is in contact 

 with the frontal. Such an exception I have never met with either in this variety or in 

 any of the forms which 1 united under Lacerta muralis, with the single exception of 

 a specimen from Elizabethpol (var. saxicola) in which it occurs on one side only f. 



The var. valentini Boettger, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1892, p. 145 (L. saxicola, subsp. 

 valentini Mehely, I. c. p. 543, pi. xxi. fig. 6), does not appear to be separable from 

 var. chalyhdea. 42 to 48 scales across the body, 19 to 21 femoral pores. Back green, 

 with black spots and vermiculations. From snout to vent 75 mm. Karabagh and 

 Armenia. 



Var. SAXICOLA. 

 Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. iii. 1834, p. 349, pi. xxx. fig. 1; 



Mkolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. Ac. St. Petersb. xv. 1910, p. 490 ; Lehrs, Festschr. R. Hertwig, ii. 



pi. xiv. fig. 8 (1910). 

 Lacerta grammica (non Licht.) Rathke, Mem. Sav. Etr. Ac. St. Petersb. iii. 1837, p. 303. 

 Lacerta taurica, part., de Filippi, Arch. p. la Zool. Anat. Eis. ii. 1863, p. 386. 



* These series of scales vary from 3 to 5 in the Mesopotamian specimens. 



f Yet Mehely (Ann. Mus. Hung. viii. 1910, p. 223) gives " Frontale .... bfters an das erste Supraoculare 

 anstossend " as one of the features characteristic of his Archseolaoertae. 



