172 



POKTTJGAL : 



? Lisbon 

 „ Algarve 



48 28 29 21 11 20 + 

 46 26 30 20 10-11 20 + 

 48 24 31 19 10 21 + 



Colums 1-6 as in the preceding ; column 7 refers to the subocular, bordering 

 ( + ) or not ( — ) the mouth. 



Habitat. — Mediterranean coast of France and Spanish Peninsula. 

 Sclireiber, in the second edition of his Herpetologie Europsea, p. 361, 

 regards P. hispaniciis as almost exclusively restricted to the sea-coast, 

 only exceptionally occurring far inland. Had he referred to Bosca's 

 paper in Bull. Soc. Zool. Prance, 1880, p. 273, he would have found 

 that the species occurs over nearly the whole of the Spaaiish Peninsula, 

 in suitable arid, sandy regions, " tres abondant dans le centre et le midi." 



This species has been recorded from Siliqua, Sardinia, by Giglioli, 

 Arch. f. Nat, 1879, p. 97. Having examined the single specimen 



