Laeerta. 185 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 



$ Bukovici, Herzegovina 

 <J Brestica „ 



„ Trebinje 



„ Cettinje, Montenegro, W.C. 

 9 Njegus 



The seven columns as for the typical form, p. 175. 



A. Klaptocz has recorded the abundance of this lizard in North 

 Albania, in the plain in the neighbourhood of Shkodra, whilst the 

 typical L. muralis alone occurs in the town itself and in the mountains 

 up to 1000 metres altitude. The scales across the body are stated to 

 vary between 40 and 63, the femoral pores between 15 and 25 — a range 

 of variation which exceeds that mentioned by me, and fills up the gap 

 between the vars. fiumana and melisellensis, so far as these characters 

 are concerned. 



In Herzegovina this lizard occurs up to 1200 metres. 



On the distribution, cf. Werner, Mitth. Nat. Ver. Univ. Wien, vi, 

 1908, p. 50, pi. i (map). 



Var. LISSANA. 



Laeerta muralis fusca, var. lissana, Werner, Verh. Zool.-bot. G-es. 

 Wien, xli, 1891, p. 762, and Eept. Amph. Oesterr.-Ung. p. 61 

 (1897). 



Laeerta litoralis, var. lissana, Werner, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 lii, 1902, pp. 388 and 384 ; Scherer, Bl. f. Aq. Terr.-K. xv, 1904, 

 p. 193. 



Laeerta fiumana, var. lissana, Werner, Mitth. Naturw. Ver. Univ. 

 Wien, vi, 1908, pp. 45 and 46. 



Laeerta muralis, var. lissana, Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xx, 1913, p. 

 172, pi. xix, figs. 8 and 9. 



The lizard of Lissa, which, as recognised by Werner, is hardly 

 separable from that of Lagosta, was first regarded as belonging to the 

 group of the L. muralis typica (fusca, Bedriaga), but as establishing a 

 connexion between it and the L. fiumana, referred at the time to 

 Bedriaga's neapolitana group. 



I agree that it is nearer to the var. fiumana than to any other, yet 

 as it differs by an average higher number of lamellae under the fourth 

 toe, viz. 24 to 31, usually 28, instead of 22 to 29, usually 24 to 26, as 

 well as by an average somewhat larger size, I think it may perhaps be 



