1. Length (in millimetres) from snout to vent. 2. Number of scales across 

 middle of body. 3. Transverse series of ventral plates. 4. Number of plates 

 in collar. 5. Number of scales and granules between symphysis of chin-shields 

 and median collar-plate. 6. Number of femoral pores (on right and left sides, 

 if differing). 7. Number of subdigital lamellae underthe fourth toe. 8. Number 

 of postnasals. 9. Number of anterior loreals. 



Habitat. — Southern Sweden, Denmark, England, France (absent 

 from the west), Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Bohemia, 

 Austria, Hungary, Transylvania, Poland, North-Western Eussia, 

 Southern Finland. Highest altitude in the Alps, 1300 m. GreneraUy 

 distributed in the central parts of Europe, it becomes more local to 

 the west. The British localities where its presence has been ascer- 

 tained are in Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorsetshire, and 

 Lancashire. 



Var. SPINALIS. 



Lacerta agilis, var. spinalis, Werner, Eept. Amph. Oesterr.-TJng. 

 p. 39 (1897) ; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xxi, 1916, p. 26. 



Lacerta agilis, Kolombatovic, Zool. Vij. Dalmat. p. xx (1900) ; 

 Werner, Wiss. Mitth. Bosn. Herzegov. x, 1907, p. 658. 



Lacerta agilis, var. hosnica, Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, pp. 483, 944 

 (1912). 



Schreiber's var. hosnica is founded on the presence of a single 

 postnasal and a single anterior loreal (" Das obere Postnasale mit 

 dem Frenale zu einem einzigen hohen Schildchen versohmolzen ") in 



