40 LACERTIDA. 
Femoral pores 16 to 21. Tail about twice as long as head and 
body; upper caudal scales truncate, strongly keeled. Olive-grey 
above, back uniform or scantily dotted with black; a blackish 
band or series of black spots on each side, extending to the eye or the 
loreal region ; sides with round white spots ; lower surfaces uniform 
greenish white (in spirit). ; 
3: Q. 
? millim. millim 
Totallength 2. ...... eee eee eens 232 193 
Head, sas.ccg buecad pae sone sees ee 21 15 
Width of head .......- eee ee eee 15 10 
From end of snout to fore limb...... 32 25 
From end of snout to vent........-. 80 71 
Fore limb 2... 0c. cere neers 28 24 
Hind limb ........ 0c eee eee eee 46 39 
Tall saga paweaGan cates ehaws's 152 122 
Syria. 
a. Q. P [Type. ] 
b-d. 3 Q. Damascus. Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 
e-g. SQ. Jerusalem, Canon Tristram [C.]. 
hs. - Dead Sea. - Canon Tristram bod. 
18. Lacerta jayakari. (Pxare II.) 
Head moderately depressed; snout long, obtusély acuminate. 
Rostral entering the nostril ; two superposed postnasals ; six upper 
Jabials anterior to the subocular ; a series of granules between the 
supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; occipital broader than the inter- 
parietal; temple minutely and uniformly granulate, the granules 
much smaller than the dorsal scales ; tympanic shield very small ; 
a large anterior supratemporal shield, followed by a series of smaller 
ones. No trace of a gular fold; 47 to 50 gular scales on a line 
between the collar and the third pair of chin-shields; collar with 
very slightly serrated edge, composed of 13 or 15 small plates. 
Dorsal scales very small, granular, round, convex, smooth or very 
indistinctly keeled, 85 to 95 across the middle of the body; four 
or five lateral scales correspond to the length of the ventral shield. 
Ventrals broader than long, in eight longitudinal series, the outer 
series narrowest, the others equal; 27 or 28 transverse series. 
Preeanal small, surrounded by two or three semicircles of smaller 
plates. The hind limb reaches the collar. Scales on upper surface 
of crus slightly larger than dorsals, obtusely keeled. A series of 
large shields under the arm. Femoral pores 26 to 28. Tail about 
twice as long as head and body; upper caudal scales truncate 
strongly keeled. Olive above; adult uniform, white-spotted on che 
cheeks and sides of the neck ; young spotted with black and whitish 
all over the body, with three black vertical bars on the temple and a 
black spot on each labial shield. Lower surfaces uniform yellowish. 
