Lacerta. 55 



Lacerta paradoxa (non Eazoum.), Bedriaga, t.c, p. 170, pi. — , 

 fig. 23. 



Lacerta agilis, var. exigua, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 21 (1887) ; 

 Nikolsky, Fedtschenko's Eeise, Zool. ii, pt. Tii, p. 31 (1899) ; Mehely, 

 in Zichy, Zool. Ergebn. 3. Asiat. Forschungsr. ii, p. 51, pi. vii (1901) ; 

 Lindholm, Zool. Gart. xliii, 1902, p. 24 ; Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 104 

 (1905) ; Bedriaga, Wiss. Ees. Przewalski Eeis., Amph. Eept. p. 765 

 (1912) ; Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 480, fig. (1912) ; Bouleng. Tr, 

 Zool. Sec. xxi, 1916, p. 30, pi. ii, figs. 8-9. 



Lacerta agilis, var. altaica, Kaschenko, Eezult. Altaisk. Eksp. Str. 

 p. 116 (1899); Cugunov, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. xvi, 1911, 

 p. 231, pi. iv. 



Lacerta agilis, vars. colohica, eremioides, concolor, Schreib. op. cit., 

 p. 482. 



Lacerta agilis exigua, Nesterov, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. xvii, 

 1912, p. 76; Nikolsky, Herp. Caucas. p. 49 (1913). 



The proportions are the same as in the typical form, but the length 

 of the head in males is contained 3^^ to 4^ times in the length to vent 

 and the pileus is 2 to 2i times as long as broad. Tail sometimes up 

 to l-f- times length of head and body. Nearly always two superposed 

 postnasals, followed by one or, more frequently, two superposed 

 anterior loreals, or anterior loreal absent.* The suture between the 

 nasals usually longer, ^ to f the length of the frontonasal, which is 

 usually as broad as or a little broader than the internarial space, t 

 First supraocular sometimes very small, or even almost reduced to a 

 granule and not touching the second loreal. J Superciliaries some- 

 times reduced to two or three.§ Temporal lepidosis very variable, 



* Out of 160 cases, 2 postnasals and 2 anterior loreals occur 65 times ; 2 

 postnasals and 1 anterior loreal 39 times ; 2 postnasals and no anterior loreal 

 42 times ; 1 postnasal and 2 anterior loreals 14 times j the upper or the lower 

 part of the anterior loreal sometimes fused with one of the postnasals (this is 

 ejcpressed in the table by i). Specimens with these and other head-shields 

 abnormally multiplied by division have been figured by Cugunov, I.e. 



t Narrower in specimens from Moscow, Tomsk, Novorossik, Ala Tau, L. 

 Urkatch, Lepsinskaja Staniza, Altai ; in contact with both postnasal and 

 anterior loreal in 5 specimens (lelenovka, Vladikaukas, Lepsinskaja Staniza, 

 B. Kunges). 



t In 14 specimens. It is curious to read that Bedriaga (I.e., p. 135) regarded 

 this condition as more characteristic of L. viridis. 



§ Specimens from E. Kunges . A female from Vladikaiikas is exceptional in 



having a series of 8-10 granules between the superciliaries and the supraoculars. 



• According to Bedriaga, a series of granules may be present in specimens from 



the Volga district. Otherwise I have never found more than one or two 



granules. 



