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median dorsals. Usually a well-developed additional series of 
ventrals, making in all eight longitudinal rows. Femoral pores 15 
to 20. Young olive above, usually with three or five yellowish 
longitudinal streaks, the lowermost of which, extending from axilla 
to groin, is often replaced by a series of round spots. These bands 
usually disappearing in the adult, which are green on the body and 
limbs, uniform or finely speckled with black ; upper surface of head 
vermiculated with black ; lower surfaces yellow, the outer ventrals 
often speckled with black ; throat never blue. 
ee ie 
Total length................. . 415 350 
UGA act aks crsictte aiceeowerr's aioe eats 36 26 
Width of head ..............0. 27 17 
From end of snout to forelimb .. 62 42 
From end of snout to vent ...... 155 115 
Fore limb.............00e cues 49 37 
Hind limb ............4... 4 83 61 
aad iss beg aostdne Suh Sse sera Rica Raeha 260 235 
Dalmatia, Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor. 
aod. Dalmatia. Dr. Heckel. 
b-c. 3. Greece. 
d. 9. Syra (?). ; 
ef. & &hgr. Rhodes. C. G. Danford, Esq. [P.]. 
g, h-m. 9 & yg. Crete. Baron v. Maltzan fc. 
n od. Asia Minor. C. Fellows, Esq. [P.]. 
o-r. Yg. Smyrna, 
& oe Zebil Bulgar Dagh, Cili- C. G. Danford, Esq. [P.]. 
cian Taurus, 4000 feet. 
D. Var. strigata. 
Lacerta strigata, Gray, Cat. p. 32. 
Lacerta strigata, Eichw. Zool. Spec. Ross. Pol. iii. p. 189, and Faun. 
Casp.-Cauc. p. 70, pl. x. figs. 4-6; Anders, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, 
p. 872; Blanf. Zool. E. Pers. p. 364. 
—— quinquevittata, Ménétr. Cat. Rais. p. 61. . 
—— viridis, Kessler, Tr. St. Petersb. Nat. Soc. viii. 1878, p. 146; 
Boettg. Ber. Senckenb. Ges. 1879-80, p. 170, and in Radde, Faun. 
Flor. Casp. Geb. p. 39. 
yar. strigata, Bedriaga, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. t. c. 
p. 91. 
Size moderate. A series of granules between the supraoculars 
and the supraciliaries; occipital small, much shorter than the 
interparietal ; tympanic shield distinct. 40 to 48 scales across 
the middle of the body; dorsals strongly keeled. Only six longi- 
tudinal rows of ventrals. Femoral pores 16 to 20. Young 
greenish or olive, spotted or marbled with black, and with three or 
five light dorsal streaks, which may disappear completely in the adult ; 
these may be closely dotted with black, as certain specimens of the 
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