194 Lacertidie. 



Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. ivii, 1905, pp. 390, 405, pi. xxvii, figs. 1 and 2, 

 and XX, 1913, p. 178, pi. xx, figs. 3-5. 



Lacerta muralis striata, part., Eimer, Zool. Stud. Capri, ii, p. 25. 



Lacerta muralis nea/politana, Tars, ca/mpestris et livomensis, 

 Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, pp. 274, 279, and Abh. Senck. Gtes. xix, 

 1886, pp. 223, 225. 



Lacerta muralis striata campestris, Eimer, Arch. f. Nat. 1881, 

 p. 328, pi. i, figs. 1 and 2. 



Lacerta muralis maculato-striata, part,, Eimer, t.c. p. 336. 



Lacerta serpa, part., Camerano, Mon. Saur. Ital. p. 56, pi. i, fig. 36 

 (1886) ; Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 444 (1912). 



Lacerta muralis, part., Camerano, op. cit. p. 30, pi. i, fig. 39. 



Lacerta muralis, var. tiliguerta, part., Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 30 

 (1887). 



Lacerta muralis, var. multifasciata, Positano Spada, Bull. Soc. Eom. 

 Zool. i, 1892, p. 164, fig. 



Lacerta muralis neapolitana, vars, olivacea et merremii, part.,* 

 Werner, Eept. Amph. Oesterr.-TJng., p. 43 (1897). 



Lacerta serpa, Werner, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Iii, 1902, 

 p. 382. 



Lacerta serpa, var. suhcampestris, Sclireib. op. cit. p. 452. 



Head 3^ to 4 times in length to vent in males, 4 to 6 times in 

 females, 1-1 to 1|- times as long as broad, moderately depressed, its 

 ■depth in the tympanic region equal to the distance between the 

 anterior corner of the eye and the anterior border of the tympanum ; 

 snout obtuse, as long as or a little longer than postocular part of head. 

 Neck as broad as or a little narrower than the head. Body moderately 

 depressed. Hind limb reaching the shoulder, the collar, or a little 

 beyond the coUar in males, the axil or the elbow of the adpressed fore 

 limb in females ; foot 1^ to 1| times the length of the head. Tail 

 cyclo-tetragonal at the base, then cylindrical, If to a little over 2 times 

 as long as head and body. 



Eostral shield narrowly separated from the nostril or, not rarely, 

 entering itf; nasals always forming a suture behind the rostral; 

 frontal usually as long as its distance from the end of the snout, 

 sometimes considerably shorter; a series of granules between the 

 superciliaries and the two principal supraoculars, the first of which is 

 usually in contact with the first superciliary, rarely with the second 



* Non L. merremia, Bisso (= i. muralis typica). L. merremii, Fitzinger, is a 

 nomen nudum whieh. has been used by Erber (Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, iviii, 

 1867, p. 855), Bedriaga, Werner and others in different senses. 



t Two postnasals on one side in a male from Zara. 



