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are black, with, white spots ; some black spots on the lips ; 

 all the lower parts of the body are whitish. 



Entire length, 4i inches ; tail, 2\ inches. 



Discovered in the Morea, in 1828, by the members of 

 the French Scientific Expedition, and would seem to be 

 peculiar to that country. 



Lacerta Fitzingeri. 



Lacerta Fitzingeri, Dum. et Bib. vol. v. p. 194; Schihz, Europ. Faun. 



vol. ii. p. 26. 

 Notopholis Fitzingeri, Buon. Faun. Ital. (figured). 



Descbiptiojst. — This species, which closely resembles the 

 preceding, is distinguished from it at once by its more 

 slender shape ; the temples above and behind are covered 

 by plates of unequal size, in front and below they are coated 

 with granules ; the fore-feet reach to the eye ; the hind- 

 feet do not reach to the shoulders of the fore-feet by a space 

 equal to the width of the back ; the tail is much longer 

 than the whole of the rest of the animal; it is slightly 

 squared, and of equal thickness for half its length ; it then 

 becomes round, and diminishes gradually in size. The form 

 and arrangement of the dorsal and lateral scales are the 

 same as in the L. Moreotica, but there are only sixteen in 

 place of twenty-two in the line drawn from side to side of 

 the belly across the middle of the back ; the ventral plates 

 are quadrilateral, and arranged in six longitudinal lines, of 

 which the two inner and the two outer are narrower than 

 the remaining two ; the small scales on each side of the pre- 

 anal plate are but one or two instead of twelve, as in the 

 above-named species. The colour is a uniform olive over 

 the whole of the upper surface, while the under parts are 

 white tinged with green, excepting the tail beneath, which 

 is of the same colour as the back. 



