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Mehely's key (p. 426), but the caudal lepidosis agrees with text-figs, a and h on 

 p. 563 *. 



I will first give particulars of the five male and the single female specimens examined 

 by me, the last belonging to the Lyons Museum (Mission Chantre, 1881). 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 



Mleti c? 53 41 23 8 19 13-14 29 



„....-...„ 52 44 25 9 25 17-16 28 



Armenia „ 53 40 25 8 19 15-14 26 



Mt. Fatguss „ 55 46 24 8 23 17-18 27 



„ 50 47 24 9 20 15-16 25 



Dariel Gorge ? 54 44 26 8 20 17-18 ? 



Shape of head and proportions exactly as in the typical form of L. muralis ; hind 

 limb reaching the shoulder or the collar in the male, the elbow of the adpressed fore 

 limb in the female. 



Rostra] not touching the nostril, usually separated from the frontonasal f : nasal 

 sometimes forming a suture with the anterior loreal J ; granules between the supra- 

 oculars and the supraciliaries forming a complete or incomplete series, or even reduced 

 to three ; occipital much shorter but sometimes broader than the interparietal ; antero- 

 lateral notch of parietal present or absent § ; anterior supratemporal usually in contact 

 with the fourth supraocular || ; temporal scales granular ^, tympanic shield large, 

 massetei'ic large or moderate; three or four upper labials anterior to the subocular. 

 Gular fold feeble or absent ; edge of collar more or less distinctly sen-ated **. 



Dorsal scales round or oval-hexagonal, smooth or faintly keeled, 30 to 42 correspond- 

 ing to the length of the head, 2 or 3 or 3 or 4 to one ventral plate. Anal plate with 

 one semicircle of small plates. Scales on upper surface of tibia feebly keeled, smaller 

 than dorsals. Caudal scales forming alternately longer and shorter whorls, diagonal, 

 more or less strongly keeled, truncate or obtusely pointed behind, 26 to 30 in the 

 fourth whorl behind the postanal granules. 



Brownish or olive above, with paired series of blackish spots, which are crowded on 

 a dark lateral band extending from the temple to the root of the tail ; above and 

 below this, a light streak is usually present, the upper of great width in the specimen 

 from Mt. Fatguss ; lower parts white or greenish, in spirit ; a series of small blue spots 

 on the outer row of ventrals. 



* I have speoiraena of the tj'pioal L. muralis from Genoa in which the caudal scales are nearly as pointed 

 as in the author's text-iig. c. 



f Forming a narrow suture with the frontonasal in the specimen from Dariel Gorge. 



t In one of the specimens from Mleti. 



§ In one of the specimens from Mleti. 



II 'Not so in the specimen from the Dariel Gorge. 

 *[f Eather large in the specimen from Armenia. 

 ** Yery feebly in one of the specimens from Mleti. The other specimen is here figured (PL XXIII. fig. 3). 



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