Lacerta. 97 



Tiie specimen in the British Museum- differs in being of a pale 

 brownish, grey above, without spots on the neck ; there are three ocellar 

 spots on each side, the first and second with two superposed blue 

 centres ; posterior two thirds of tail reddish. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



Prom end of snout to vent . . . 133 



,, „ ,, fore limb . . 45 



Length of head 

 Width of head 



Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb 



Toot . 



30 

 19 

 17 

 45 

 69 

 38 



Tail . . 250 



The type was obtained near Nii'iz, about 100 miles east of Shiraz, 

 S. Persia, at an elevation of about 2000 m., and is preserved in the 

 Calcutta Museum. It remained the only known specimen until a 

 second, from near Shiraz, was presented to the British Museum by 

 Mr. H. F. WitherbJ^ A young specimen, measuring 50 millim. from 

 snout to vent, from Sarchun, preserved in the Petrograd Museum, has 

 since been described by Mehely. The head of this specimen is of course 

 shorter and the hind limb reaches the collar; frontal narrower and 

 with concave sides ; granules between the supraoculars and the super- 

 ciliaries 6-4 ; occipital as broad as but much shorter than the large 

 interparietal ; femoral pores 15-16. Upper parts with small black 

 spots, irregularly scattered. It is possible that a female specimen from 

 Angora, noticed by Steindachner (Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixiv, 1897, 

 p. 696) under the name of L. viridis, belongs to this species, in which 

 case its range would extend to Asia Minor. Dorsal scales remarkably 

 large, those on the sides distinctly smaller ; 38 scales across the body ; 

 11 femoral pores on each side ; pale blue above (in spirit). 



As recognized by Bedriaga, L. princeps is more nearly related to 

 L. viridis than to any other species. 



5. LACEETA OCELLATA. 

 FORMA TTPICA. 



Lacerta viridis, part., Lacep. Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ov. i, p. 309, pi. xx 

 (1788). 



Lacerta ocellata, Daud. Hist. Eept. iii, p. 125, pi. xxxii (1802) ; 

 M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi, 1829, pp. 63, 82 ; Duges, t.c. p. 368, 



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