18 LACERTID 2. 
typical form and of var. ©; belly yellowish, often dotted with black 
on the sides. 
millim. millim. 
Total length.......-.....0-- 395 266 
Head. 25.cn62a0cuaee ead gees 29 19 
Width of head ...........-4. 21 13 
From end of snout to fore limb. 50 31 
From end of snout to vent .... 125 89 
Fore HmD 4.200400 6640s aces 42 28 
Hind limb on... cee ee eee wee 71 45 
Mall y-sucauca ws, s'scgs mia weaneays 270 177 
Transcaucasia, Persia, Asia Minor, Syria. 
a. 9. Elisabethpol. St. Petersburg Mus. [E. ]. 
6. Yg. Jerusalem. Canon Tristram tet 
e-d. o. Merom. Canon Tristram [C.}. 
e-f. Hgr. Lake Phiala, under Canon Tristram [C.]. 
Mount Hermon. 
g. 3. Eastern slope of Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 
Mount Hermon. 
Bedriaga (Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xiv. 1886, p. 100) distinguishes 
also a var. vaillanti from Persia (?). 
4. Lacerta princeps. 
Lacerta princeps, Blanf. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 81, and 
Zool, £. Persia, p. 364, pl. xxiv.; Bedriaga, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. 
xiv. 1886, p. 123. 
General proportions as in LZ. viridis. Rostral touching the nostril; 
two regularly superposed postnasals; an anterior loreal, in contact 
with the frontonasal ; a few granules between the supraoculars and 
the supraciliaries ; occipital nearly as long as, and much broader than, 
the interparietal, as broad as the frontal ; temples covered with flat 
scales; two large temporal shields in contact with the parietal ; 
masseteric and tympanic shields distinct. Collar with serrated edge, 
composed of seven plates. Scales on the neck above and at the 
sides granular, passing gradually on the shoulders into the sub- 
imbricate, equal, rhomboidal, diagonally keeled scales of the back; 
lateral scales rather smaller than dorsals, not keeled; about 34 
scales across the middle of the body. Ventral plates in 8 or 10 
longitudinal rows; 31 transverse rows. Preanal plate slightly 
larger than the others. 14 femoral pores. he hind limb, laid 
forwards, extends about four fifths of the distance to the axil. 
Tail more than twice as long as head and body, with all the scales 
keeled. Olivaceous grey above, whitish below ; a few small black 
spots on the back and sides of the neck, and a row of three or four 
blue ocelli (those in front double), with black margins, behind each 
shoulder, extending in a line for a short distance down each side ; 
