288 Laeertidse. 



snout to vent, tail 101. He regarded the very long tail as distinctive 

 of L. portschinsTcii compared with L. muralis. 



Var. DEPILIPPII. 



Lacerta muralis, De Pilippi, Viagg. Pers. p. 354 (1865) ; Blanf. 

 Zool. B. Pers. p. 361 (1876). 



Podarcis defilijypii, Camerano, Atti Ac. Tor. xiii, 1877, p. 90, pi. iii, 

 figs. 1-8. 



Podarcis depressa, part., Camerano, t.c. 1878, p. 539. 



Lacerta muralis fusca, var. persica, Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. G-es. xiv, 

 1886, p. 199. 



Lacerta muralis, var. defilippii, Boettg. in Eadde, Faun. Flor. S.W. 

 Casp.-Geb. p. 44 (1886) ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, ii, p. 337, 

 and Tr. Zool. Soc. xx, 1913, p. 195, pi. xxiii, tig. 2. 



Lacerta saxicola, var. defilippii, Mehely, Ann. Mus. Hung, vii, 1909, 

 p. 619 (part.), and Zool. Anz. 1910, p. 592. 



Lacerta saxicola defilippii, Nikolsky, Herp. Caucas. p. 72 (1913). 



A small form barely separable from the two preceding. Head often 

 somewhat less depressed, more as in i. muralis typica. Hind limb 

 reaching the shoulder or the collar in males, the wrist or the elbow 

 in females ; foot considerably longer than the head. As may be seen 

 from the table of measurements, the proportions are the same as in 

 the typical L. muralis from Central Europe. 



The rostral sometimes enters the nostril, but is always separated 

 from the frontonasal* ; the series of granules between the supra- 

 oculars and the superciliaries is complete ; the masseteric disc may be 

 large or small, but is often wholly absent ; the anterior supratemporal 

 is often in contact with the fourth supraocular and does not always 

 encroach upon the outer border of the parietal ; occipital usually 

 shorter and broader, sometimes much broader, than the interparietalt ; 

 four upper labials anterior to the subocular. 22 to 25 scales and 

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

 and composed of 9 to 11 very small plates ; gular fold very indistinct 

 or absent. 



Scales on body granular, round or oval, smooth, equal, 45 to 53 

 across the middle of the body, 32 to 46 corresponding to the length of 

 the head, 3 or 4 to one ventral plate. Preanal plate bordered by one 

 or two semicircles of smaller plates. 



* One of the specimens collected by Blanford has two superposed postnasals 

 on one side. 



+ Which may he divided into two, or fused with the occipital. 



