Lacerta. 28S 



Lacerta depressa, var. modesta, Bedriaga, t.c. p. 272 ; Bouleng. Cat. 

 Liz. iii, p. 34 (1887) ; Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1889, p. 204 ; Steind. 

 Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xx, 1907, p. 308. 



Lacerta mwralis, Koppen, Beitr. Euss. E. (2), vi, p. 63 (1883). 



Lacerta muralis, var. depressa, part., Boettg. Ber. Senck. G-es. 1892, 

 p. 141 ; Mehely, in Zichy, Dritte Asiat. Forscliungsr. ii, Zool. p. 64 

 (1901); Derjugin, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. vi, 1901, p. 97;. 

 Nikolsky, Herp. Eoss. p. 136 (1905). 



Lacerta muralis, var. dejilippi (non Camer.), Boettg. t.c. p. 144. 



Lacerta muralis, part., Nikolsky, op. cit. p. 130. 



Lacerta muralis, var. depressa, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, ii,. 

 p. 333, pi. xxii, fig. a. 



Lacerta saxicola, f . typica, Mehely, Ann. Mus. Hung, vii, 1909, p. 495, 

 pi. xviii, figs. 4, 5, 6, 8 ; Nikolsky, Herp. Caucas. p. 67 (1913). 



Lacerta saxicola, var. defilippii, part., Mehely, t.c. p. 519, pi. xviii,. 

 figs. 1-3 ; Mkolsky, op. cit. p. 72. 



Lacerta caucasica, var. tenuis, Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. 

 XV, 1910, p. 496. 



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

 p. 190, pi. xxii, figs. 3, 4. 



In form similar to tlie typical L. muralis, or rather to the var. 

 hrueggemanni, but head more depressed as a rule, its depth not exceed- 

 ing the distance between the centre of the eye and the anterior border 

 of the tympanum ; snout as a rule more pointed than in var. chalybdea 

 and less than in var. portschinshii. Hind limb reaching the shoulder 

 or the collar in males, the axil, or the elbow of the adpressed fore 

 limb in females ; foot longer than the head. 



Head-shields as in var. chalybdea, but rostral not rarely in contact 

 with the frontonasal, granules between the supraoculars and the 

 superciliaries nearly always forming a complete series, and masseteric 

 disc often smaller* ; the supratemporal is usually in contact with the 

 fourth supraocular, but the degree of emargination of the antero- 

 lateral border of the parietal is very variable, some specimensf not 

 differing in this respect from a typical L. muralis ; frequently five 

 upper labials anterior to the subocular. 23 to 32|: scales and granules 

 between the chin-shields and the collar, which is not serrated and 

 composed of 8 to 12 plates. 



Scales on body granular, round or roundish-hexagonal, smooth or 



* Absent in specimens from Kasano, Talysoh, and Katar, Armenia; very 

 large in male from Borjom. 



+ From Shuska and Erdsohias Dagh. 



