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The dorsal scales are sometimes distinctly keeled, sometimes quite smooth ; 36 to 50 

 transverse series correspond to the length of the head ; the ventrals form 6 longitudinal 

 series. 28 to 34 caudal scales in the 4th or 5th whorl behind the postanal granules, those 

 on the upper surface strongly keeled. 21 to 29 scales under the fourth toe. The head 

 (PI. XXV. figs. 8 & 9) is often rather more depressed than in the Central-European 

 specimens, and may remind one of L. ledriagw from Corsica ; its depth at the occiput 

 equals in some specimens the distance between the tympanum and the posterior border 

 of the eye, in others that between the tympanum and the centre of the eye. 



Out of 5 specimens from the Serra de Gerez, 2 have the parietal excluded from 

 contact with the postocular 1 . 



The masseteric disk is often very small or absent. The markings vary much, but 

 there is never any indication of a dark vertebral stripe ; the light dorso-lateral streaks, 

 if present, are closer together, or at any rate not wider apart, on the body than on the 

 nape ; the sides, and often the whole of the body, may show a black network 

 enclosing small roundish pale green spots; the lower parts are uniform, or but scantily 

 spotted with black. 



Young specimens from Oporto (Gadow) and Cintra (Yerbury) may be referred to 

 the same variety. 



Two specimens, male and female, from Galicia, collected by M. Seoane, are figured, 

 PI. XXIV. figs. 6 & 7, and the anterior part of the body of a spotted male from the 

 Serra de Gerez, collected by Dr. Gadow, is represented on PL XXIV. fig. 8. 



Specimens from Lisbon agree with those from Galicia, except that the caudal scales 

 are less strongly keeled. The scales are smooth or nearly so, and the masseteric disk 

 is small or absent. 



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J 1 . Lisbon 48 



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Boettger (Sitzb. Akad. Berl. 1887, p. 185) also finds the Lisbon and Gerez 

 specimens very similar, and describes the ground-colour as of a greenish grey. 



Specimens from Coimbra have been described by Bedriagain 1890 (' Amphibiens et 

 Reptiles recueillis en Portugal par M. A. F. Moller,' p. 52). The femoral pores are 

 stated to vary between 15 and 19. Unlike the Portuguese specimens examined by me, 

 the tail does not equal two-thirds of the total, and the scales on the upper surface 

 of the leg may be as large as those on the body. 



1 A young lizard from Ciudad Eeal (Bosea) in the Lataste Collection, which agrees well with the Serra de 

 Gerez specimens, also shows this character. 



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