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1. Prom find of snout to vent (in millimetres). 2. Scales across middle of 

 body. 3. Longitudinal series of ventral plates. 4. Transverse series of 

 ventral plates. 5. Plates in collar. 6. Gular scales in median longitudinal 

 series. 7. Pemoral pores (right and left). 8. Lamellae under fourth toe. 

 9. Widtli of frontal shield. 10. "Width of occipital shield (in millim.). 



Habitat. — Liguria, South of Prance as far Nortli as the Jura and 

 the Charente-Inferieure, Spain and Portugal. 1140 m. is the highest 

 altitude reached by this form in the Alps, 1000 m. in Spain. 



Remains which are certainly referable to this lizard have been 

 recorded* from a cave at Lunel-Viel, Herault, with TJrsus spelseus 

 (Pleistocene). A parietal bone from La G-rive St. Alban (Middle 

 Miocene), preserved in the British Museum (Lacerta lamandini, 

 Pilhol?) is not distinguishable from the same bone in L. viridis, 

 var. major, and L. ocellata, var. pater. 



Var. PATEE. 



Lacerta ocellata, Schleg. in Wagn. Eeis. Alg. iii, p. 112 (1841) ; 

 Strauch, Erp. Alg. p. 33 (1862) ; Bouleng. Nov. Zool. xii, 1905, p. 74, 

 pi. i, fig. 2 and pi. ii, fig. 1 ; Eose'n, Ana. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi, 1905, 

 p. 138. 



Lacerta ocellata pater, Lataste, Le Natural. 1880, p. 306. 



Lacerta ocellata, var. viridissima, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Gres. 1880-81, 

 p. 146, and in Kobelt, Eeise Alg. Tun. p. 466 (1885). 



Lacerta pater, Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. G-es. xiv, 1886, p. 54 ; J. v. 

 Fisch. Zool. G-art. xxix, 1888, p. 265 ; Werner, Verh. Zool.-bot. G-es. 

 Wien, xlii, 1892, pp. 351 and 353 and xliv, 1894, p. 79. 



Lacerta ocellata, var. pater, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 13 (1887), and 

 Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii, 1891, p. 123, pi. xv, figs, a-e; Doumergue, Herp. 

 Oran. p. 117. pi. viii, figs. 1, 2 (1901) ; Lehrs, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. 

 xxviii, 1909, p. 84. 



* Gervais, Zool. Pal. Fran?, p. 258, pi. Ixiv, fig. 4 (1852). 



