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ME. G. A. BOULENGEE ON THE VAEIETIES OF 



for study, I was pleased to find two further specimens of this form, both females — one 

 marked " Galicia " (PI. XXIV. fig. 12), the other from an unknown Spanish locality 

 (PL XXIV. fig. 13). A young specimen labelled " Spain (Bosca) " is preserved in the 

 Lataste Collection (see text-fig. 4 d, p. 369). 



The head (PL XXV. figs. 11 & 12) is strongly depressed, and the supratemporals are 

 well visible from above ; the parietal does not touch, or scarcely touches, the upper 

 postocular, and its antero-lateral border is slightly concave 1 ; in one specimen the nasal 



Text-fig. 3. 



Upper and side views of Leads of : — a. Lacerta Jiorvathi ; b. L. muralis, var. montkola ; 



c. L. muralis, var. clepressa. 



forms a suture with the loreal 2 ; four anterior upper labials ; masseteric disk large ; 

 rostral forming a suture with the frontonasal ; frontal as long as or a little shorter than 

 its distance from the end of the snout ; supraocular granules forming a complete series. 



1 Exactly as figured for L. mosoriensis by Me'hely, Ann. Mus. Hung. ii. p. 366, fig. 2, A. — " Diese 

 Eigenschaft, die ich fur einen blutsverwandtsehaftlichen Character einer mit Lacerta sa.vicola Eversm. im 

 Kaukasus beginnenden und mit Lacerta Jiorvathi abschliessenden, von der Entwickclungsreihe dor Lacerta 

 muralis grundverscbiedenen phyletiscben Eeibe betrachte." — Me'hely, Z. c. 



2 As in L. Jiorvathi, Mehely, t. c. p. 367, fig. 3, C. 



