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? Katar, Armenia, L.M. 



(J Trebizond, P.M. . 



,, Trebizond ? (type of L. 



pressa), T.M, 

 „ Trebizond ? „ 



„ Erdschias Dagh, Asia Minor 

 .,, Cicilian Taurus 

 Columns as on p. 175. 



Habitat. — Crimea, Cis- and Transcaucasia, Asia Minor. 



Lacerta cauoasiea, Tar. temiis, Nikolsky, which was referred by me, 

 ■with a query, to the synonymy of L. cJilorogaster, belongs to this form 

 according to M. Lantz, who has examined the type from Lenkoran. 



The vars. brauneri, Mehely (Ann. Mus. Hung, vii, 1909, p. 509), and 

 raddei, Boettger (Ber. Senck. Ges. 1892, p. 142), with which I am 

 only acquainted through the descriptions, appear to connect this form 

 with the Tar defilippii. 



The small Tar. parvula, Lantz and Cyren, Mitth. Kauk. Mus. Tii, 

 1913, p. 163, figs., from ArtTin, Transcaucasia, of which I haTe 

 examined a photograph received from Mr. Lantz, may be regarded 

 .as intermediate between the Tars, saxicola a.nd. portschinsMi. 



Var. POETSCHINSEII. 



Lacerta taurica, part., De Filippi, Arch. Zool. Anat. Pis. ii, 1863, 

 p. 386. 



Podarcis depressa, part., Camerano, Atti Ace. Tor. xiii, 1878, p. 539. 



Lacerta portschinsMi, Kessler, Tr. Soc. Nat. St. Petersb. Tiii, 1878, 

 p. 160, pi. i ; Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1879, p. 308. 



Lacerta muralis, Tar. depressa, part., Bedriaga, t.c. p. 312. 



Lacerta muralis. Tar. portschinsTeii, Bouleng. P. Z. S. 1904, ii, p. 337, 

 pi. xxii, fig. 6, and Tr. Zool. Soc. xx, 1913, p. 193, pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 



Lacerta muralis, part., Nikolsky, Herp. Ross. p. 136 (1906). 



Lacerta saxicola. Tar. chalyhdea (non Eichw.), Mehely, Ann. Mus. 

 Hung. Tii, 1909, p. 513. 



Lacerta saxicola, Tar. portscTiinskii, Nikolsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. 

 St. Petersb. xt, 1910, p. 493. 



Lacerta saxicola portschinsTeii, Nikolsky, Herp. Caucas. p. 70 (1913). 



A small, slender form, with Tery pointed snout. "Hind limb 

 reaching the shoulder or the collar in the male, between the wrist 

 and the elbow in the female. Frontonasal as long as broad or a 



