348 Lacertidse. 



Habitat.— GoriziA, Carniola, Istria (with Cherso and Veglia Ids.), 

 W. Croatia, Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albairia, Epirus, 

 and Ionian Islands. 



4. ALGIEOIDES AFEICANUS. 



Algiroides africanus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1906, ii, p. 570, fig., 

 and Eev. Zool. Afr. vii, 1919, p. 13 ; Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. 

 xxxix, 1919, p. 201, fig., pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 



Adolfus fridericianus, Sternf. in Schubotz, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. 

 Z.-Afr. Exped. iv, ii, p. 220, fig. (1912). 



Body rather strongly depressed. Head rather strongly depressed, 

 flat above, 1| to If times as long as broad, its depth equal to the 

 distance between the centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length 

 3f to 4 times in length to vent ; snout obtusely pointed, as long as 

 the postocular part of the head. Parietal foramen usually absent. 

 Pterygoid teeth absent. Neck as broad as the head. The hind limb 

 reaches the collar or the ear-opening ; foot longer than tha-'head ; 

 digits slender, compressed, the basal phalanx of the toes forming a 

 keel. Tail If to 2j times as long as head and body. 



Upper head-shields more or less rugose with very fine striae ; nostril 

 pierced between two shields; nasals forming a very short suture 

 behind the rostral or rostral in contact with the frontonasal,* which is 

 as long as broad or a little broader ; suture between the prefrontals 

 usually shortt ; frontal If to 2 times as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, narrower behind than in front ; 

 parietals 1^- to IJ times as long as broad, in contact with the upper 

 postocularj ; interparietal narrow ; occipital small, shorter and often 

 broader than the interparietal, from which it may be separated by the 

 parietals. § Pour supraoculars, first very small, second a little longer 

 than third, fourth larger than first ; 6 or 7 superciliaries, first longest 

 and in contact with the second supraocular ; a series of granules 

 between the supraoculars and the superciliaries. Nasal narrowly 

 separating the nostril from the first upper labial ; a single postnasal, 

 often nearly as large as the anterior loreal, which is shorter than the 

 second ; 5, rarely 4 || upper labials anterior to the subocular, which is 

 not or but little narrower beneath than above. Upper temporals 

 not enlarged, or narrow and keeled ; temporal scales rather small, 



* In 2 specimens from Bitye, in -i from Madje. 



t A small azygos prefrontal in 3 specimens from Madje. 



i 3 exceptions in specimens from Madje. 



§ 1 specimen from Bitye, 9 from Madje. 



II On one side in the type and in 3 specimens from Madje. 



