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Var. DEFiLippii. 



Lacerta muralis de Filippi, Viagg. in Persia, p. 354 (1865) ; Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 361 (1876). 



Podarcis defilippii Camerano, Atti Ace. Toi'. xiii. 1877, p. 90, pi. iii. figs. 1-3. 



Podarcis depressa, part., Camerano, t. c. 1878, p. 539. 



Lacerta muralis fusea, \a.r. pe7-sica Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. siv. 1886, p. 199. 



Lacerta muralis, var. defilippii Boettg. in Radde, Faun. Flor. Sudw. Casp.-Geb. p. 44 (1886) •, 



Bouleng. P. Z. S. 1904, ii. p. 337. 

 Lacerta saxicola, var. defilippii Mehely, Ann. Mus. Hung. vii. 1909, p. 519 (part.), and Zool. Anz. 



1910, p. 592. 



A small form barely separable from the two preceding. Head often somewhat 

 less depressed, more as in L. muralis typica. Hind limb reaching the shoulder 

 or the collar in the males, the wrist or the elbow in the females ; foot considerably 

 longer than the head. As may be seen from the table of measurements, the propor- 

 tions are the same as in the typical L. muralis from Central Europe. 



The rostral sometimes enters the nostril, but is always separated from the fronto- 

 nasal * ; the series of granules between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries is 

 complete; the masseteric disk may be large or small, but is often wholly absent; the 

 anterior supratemporal is often in contact with the fourth supraocular and does not 

 always encroach upon the outer border of the parietal (see PL XXIII. fig. 2 a) ; 

 occipital usually shorter and broader, sometimes much broader than the interparietal t; 

 four upper labials anterior to the subocular. 22 to 25 scales and granules between 

 the chin-shields and the collar, which is not serrated and is composed of 9 to 11 very 

 small plates ; gular fold very indistinct or absent. 



Scales on body granular, round or oval, smooth, equal, 45 to 53 across the middle of 

 the body, 32 to 46 corresponding to the length of the head, 3 or 4 to one ventral plate. 

 Prseanal plate bordered by one or two semicircles of small plates. 



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

 14 to 20 femoral pores on each side. 24 to 29 lamellar scales under the fourth toe. 



Caudal scales differing from those of the preceding varieties in being less strongly 

 keeled, sometimes very feebly ; 24 to 32 scales in the fourth or fifth whorl behind the 

 postanal granules. 



The coloration of fresh specimens is thus described by Blanford : — " Olive-grey on 

 the back, finely spotted with black, rather darker on the sides, the under parts pale 

 throughout in some individuals, in others (probably males) all the abdomen, breast, 

 throat, and sometimes part of the lower labials, are brick-red, and when this colour is 

 most intense there is a line of pale blue spots on the exterior edge of the outermost 

 ventral scales." I may add that a dorso-lateral series of small light spots is more or 

 less distinct, and that round light spots are usually present on the darker sides. 

 * One of the specimens collected by Blanford has two superposed postnasals on one side, 

 t Which may be divided into two, or fused with the occipital. 



