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Columns as on p. 175. 



The type specimens were labelled " Neapolitano " in the Naples 

 University Museum, but this indication is probably erroneous as, on 

 looking through the large collection of Italian lizards in the Florence 

 Museum, I failed to find any that could be referred to this variety, 

 the certain habitat of vfhich is Herzegovina, at an altitude of 1300 to 

 1400 metres. 



In its short and convex head, in its feebly serrated collar, in its 

 pointed caudal scales, as well as in its larger temporal scales, the var. 

 hreviceps not only approaches L. vivipara, but also fills up to some 

 extent the gap separating the typical L. muralis irom. the yar.fiumana. 



Var. HOEVATHI. 



Lacerta mosorensis, part., Mehely, AUantani Koslem. ii, 1903, p. 212. 



Lacerta horvathi, Mehely, Ann. Mus. Hung, ii, 1904, p. 362, figs., 

 AUantani Koslem. iii, 1904, p. 193, pi. v, Ann. Mus. Hung, iii, 1905, 

 p. 298, and vii, 1909, p. 600, pi. xxiv, figs. 1-4, and xxv, figs. 5-8. 



Lacerta muralis, var. horvathi, Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xx, 1913, 

 p. 165, pi. XX, figs. 1, 2. 



Habit rather stout and depressed. Head much flattened, with short, 

 obtuse snout. The hind limb, stretched forwards, reaches the axil or 

 the shoulder in the male, the wrist or the elbow of the adpressed fore 

 limb in the female ; foot as long as or a little longer than the head. 



The rostral does not touch the nostril, and forms a suture with the 

 frontonasal ; frontal short, usually as long as its distance from the 

 rostral, sometimes as long as its distance from the end of the snout ; a 

 series of granules between the supraoculars and the superciliaries, 

 sometimes complete, rarely reduced to 6, the first and second super- 

 ciliaries being in contact with the supraocular ; parietal more or less 

 distinctly emarginate on the outer border, where it forms a suture with 

 a large anterior upper temporal, and usually in contact with the upper 

 postocular ; occipital usually shorter and narrower than the inter- 

 parietal, sometimes extremely small. Anterior nasal often in contact 

 with the anterior loreal ; four anterior upper labials (rarely five or 

 three) ; temporal scales rather large, with a distinct masseteric shield^ 

 which is sometimes in contact with the last or penultimate upper 

 labial. 



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