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Lacertidae. 



head and neck, yellow beneath ; five large cobalt-blue spots on each side 

 of the body.* The localities for these varieties are not stated. 



Fourticulars of Specimens Examined. 



Columns as on p. 176. 



Specimens of this variety are often difiicult to distinguish from the 

 typical L. muralis. In such cases the higher number of transverse 

 rows of ventral plates (26 to 30 in males and 31 to 34 in females) and 

 of gular scales in a longitudinal series (28 to 36) will often help to 

 solve the difficulty. Thus a male from Pentelikon, near Athens, which 

 had been determined as L. muralis, var. erhardi by Prof. v. Mdhely, 



* This is perhaps a yoiing L. viridis, similar to the L. major, var. 

 ocellata of Sohreiber. 



