216 Lacertidas. 



times as long as the head ; toes rather long and slender, more com- 

 pressed than in the typical form. Tail If to 2\ times as long as head 

 and body. 



Eostral shield narrowly separated from the nostril or, frequently, 

 entering it*; frontal as long as or shorter than its distance from the 

 end of the snout ; series of granules between the supraoculars and 

 the superciliaries either complete or beginning behind the first super- 

 ciliary t; parietals IJ to IJ times as long as broad, usually touching 

 the upper postocularj; occipital often as long as and broader than 

 the interparietal ; temporal scales small and granular ; tympanic and 

 masseteric shields always present ; upper temporal shield small, often 

 broken up into scales ; normally four upper labials anterior to the 

 subocular, § which is much narrower beneath than above. 



27 to 40 scales on a line between the symphysis of the chin-shields 

 and the median collar-plate ; gular fold distinct. Collar even-edged, 

 with 9 to 13 plates. 



Scales small, round, oval, or subhexagoual, very convex, smooth or 

 feebly keeled, 56 to 77 across the middle of the body, usually 58 to 

 72 ; 40 ( (J ) to 57 ( $ ) transverse series, in the middle of the back, 

 correspond to the length of the head, 3 and 4, 4, or 4 and 5 on the 

 side correspond to a ventral plate. Ventral plates in 24 to 32 

 transverse series (24 to 28 in males, 26 to 32 in females). || Preanal 

 plate rather small, usually bordered by two semicircles of small plates. 



Scales on upper surface of tibia as large as or a little smaller than 

 dorsals, keeled ; 18 to 29 femoral pores on each side, usually 19 to 

 25 ; 27 to 34 lamellar scales under the fourth toe, usually 30 to 33. 



Caudal scales truncate, upper rather strongly keeled, more or less 

 oblique, the whorls subequal in length or longer and shorter alter- 

 nately ; 30 to 37 scales in the fourth whorl behind the postanal 

 granules. 



Brown, olive, or green above, usually spotted or marbled with blackish 

 and with a yellowish or whitish dorso-lateral streak or series of spots ; 

 frequently a blackish vertebral streak or series of spots ; sides, in 



* In two specimens from Corsica and in two from Sardinia tlie rostral forms 

 a narrow sviture with the frontonasal. 



t The series is complete in 20 specimens out of 45 from Corsica, in 22 out of 

 47 from Sardinia. 



X Exceptions in 12 specimens from Corsica, in 1 from Sardinia. 



§ 5 on both sides in 2 specimens from Corsica and in 4 from Sardinia, 5 on 

 one side in 3 from Corsica and in 6 from Sardinia ; 3 in 2 from Corsica and in 

 1 from Sardinia. 



II In one specimen from Corte, Corsica, a few of the plates of the outer row 

 are divided into two. 



