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Habitat. — Syria* ; also reported from Rhodes and Cyprus. 

 Although I have, in the course of the past 30 years, looked over several 

 large collections of Cyprus reptiles, I have never come across a speci- 

 men of this or any other species of Lacerta from that island. A small 

 series of reptiles collected by Mr. C. Gr. Danford on Ehodes in 1879 

 contains examples of one Lacerta Only, L. viridis, var. major.} The 

 record of this species from the Cilician Taurus by Werner (Jahrb. Nat. 



* The numerous specimens in the Lyons Museum have been referred by 

 Lortet to L. muralis and L. taurica. 



t L. danfordii is, however, known from Rhodes. 



