Habitat. — Tuscan Archipelago (Griglio, Gianutri), Sardinia, Lipari 

 Islands, Sicily, Pantellaria, Tunis, and Minorca. 



This variety approaches in many respects the var. ledriagse, and 

 since expressing my views on this subject I have accidentally come 

 across a previously published note by J. Scherer* in which, alluding 

 to Sicilian examples under the name of L. serpa, var. reticulata, 

 Schreiber, he observes that it is distinguished from the var. alhiventris 

 by a more powerful and larger build, an unusually broad, folded neck, 

 a more depressed skull, often more swollen cheeks, frequently without 

 masseteric shield, and a remarkably long tail, which may be nearly 

 three times as long as head and body. These characters are among 



* Bl. Aq. Terr. K. xiv, 1903, p. 242, fig. 



