Lacerta. 209 



Collar with even edge ; gular fold distinct. 



Dorsal scales very small, roundish, convex, faintly keeled granules ; 



3 or 4 correspond to a ventral plate, 42 or 43 to the length of the head. 

 Preanal plate rather small, with 2 or 3 semicircles of small plates ; in 

 the specimen from Platia it is followed by a series of granular scales, 

 as sometimes occurs in the var. albiventris. Scales on upper surface 

 of tibia feebly keeled, a little smaller than dorsals. 



Upper caudal scales moderately keeled, truncate, very diagonal to 

 the keel, 30 or 31 in the fourth whorl behind the postanal granules. 



Greyish olive above, uniform or with very faint darker reticulation, 

 white beneath, outer ventral shields bluish grey ; a blue, black-edged 

 «pot may be present above the axil. 



"Werner mentions having seen quite similar lizards at Pera, near 



'Constantinople, and he was perfectly right in regarding them as an 



■" oZit)acea-f orm" of the lizard described by Berthold as L. tiieroglyphica, 



from Constantinople. I was able to examine Berthold's specimens 



preserved in the Grottingen Museum, a half -grown male and a very 



young. Apart from the reticulate markings and the proportions, due 



to the different sex, the agreement with the Marmora Islands specimens 



is very close. 



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



(J . . . 48 68 25 11 34 26-24 35 



The hind limb reaches a little beyond the collar. The male has 



4 anterior upper labials on the right side and 5 on the left, the young 

 has 4 on both sides. 4 or 5 dorsal scales correspond to a ventral plate, 

 55 to the length of the head ; 34 caudal scales in the fourth whorl. 



Berthold described his L. MeroglypMca as "supra nigra, figuris 

 hieroglyphicis albis notata." Now somewhat bleached, the larger 

 specimen appears olive with a wide-meshed black network, as is 

 frequently the case in the var. tiliguerta ; the young is also reticulate, 

 but the markings have a tendency to dispose themselves in five 

 longitudinal series, as in some young of var. albiventris. 



On a visit to the Florence Museum I found several specimens 

 labelled as from Cattaro, Dalmatia, which I refer to the same form. 

 No importance can be attached to the locality, and the fact that the 

 bottle in which they are preserved contains also two specimens of 

 Lacerta Isevis, G-ray, makes it probable that they came from Asia. 



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



(J . . . 80 69 28 11 29 24-25 35 

 ? . . . 80 61 30 10 24 21 32 



Hind limb reaching the collar in the male. Frontal shorter than 

 its distance from the end of the snout ; occipital considerably shorter 



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