302 Lacertidse. 



22. LACERTA L^VIS. 



Lacerta Imvis, Gray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 279, and Oat. Liz. p. 31 

 <1845) ; Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 488 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1881, p. 742; Bedriaga, Abh. Senct. Ges. xiv, 1886, p. 268; 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 39 (1887), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xxi, 1916, p. 60, 

 pi. iv, figs. 4, 5. 



Podarcis judaica, Camerano, Atti Ace. Torin. xiii, 1877, p. 92, 

 pi. ii, figs. 2-5. 



Lacerta judaica, Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1880, p. 270 ; Boettg. Ber. 

 .Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 172. 



Lacerta muralis, var. judaica, P. Mull. Verb. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii, 

 1882, p. 156. 



Lacerta muralis, part., Nikolsky, Herp. Eoss. p. 130 (1905). 



? Lacerta Isevis, Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxi, i, 1902, p. 1091, and 

 Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xix, 1903, p. 332, pi. xxiii, fig. 4. 



Size and shape of head and elongation of body very different 

 according to the sexes, the difference even greater than in L. 

 peloponnesiaca. Head If to If times as long as broad, rather 

 strongly depressed in the female, but little broader than deep in 

 the full-grown male, its depth in the tympanic region equal to the 

 distance between the anterior corner or the centre of the eye and 

 the tympanum, its length 4 to 5 times in length to vent in the 

 female, S^ to 3f times in the male ; snout obtusely pointed, as long 

 as or a little shorter than postocular part of head ; cheeks moderately 

 swollen in the male ; pileus 2 to 2| times as long as broad. 



Neck as broad as the head or a little narrower. Body moderately 

 depressed. 



Hind limb reaching the wrist or the elbow, rarely the axil, in 

 females, the collar or between the collar and the ear in males ; foot 

 longer than the head. 



Tail cylindrical, often a little flattened at the base, twice or a little 

 over or a little under twice as long as head and body. 



Nostril pierced between the nasal, two postnasals, the first upper 

 labial, and the rostral. Nasals usually forming a suture behind the 

 rostral * ; frontonasal as long as broad or a little broader than long ; 

 frontal as long as or shorter than its distance from the end of the 

 snout, H to 2 times as long as broad, nearly as broad, behind, as 

 the major supraoculars or a little broader; in large males the frontal 

 sometimes trilobate in front, as in L. peloponnesiaca ; parietals 1^ to 



* Bostral in contact with the frontonasal in 3 specimens from Sidou. 



