182 SAURIA. 



The entire length, is about 4J inches; tail, nearly 3 

 inches. 



It is found only in the Island of Sardinia, and is con- 

 fined to certain districts in the north and centre of the 

 country. 



SECOND GKOUP. Dorsal scales more or less oblong, 

 narrow, hexagonal, tectiform, not tiled as decidedly 

 as in the First Group. 



Lacerta stirpium. 



Lacerta stirpium, Dum. et Bib. vol. v. p. 196 ; Schinz, Europ. Faun. 



rol. ii. p. 17. 

 Lacerta agilis, Buon. Faun. Ital. (figured) ; Bell, Hist. Brit. Quad. 



(figured). 

 Lacerta Europcea, Pallas, Zoog. Ross. As. vol. iii. p. 29. 

 Sandy Lizard, Bell. 



Description. — Two naso-frenal plates, the upper one rest- 

 ing in part on the lower, and in part on the post-naso-frenal 

 plate ; the temples are clothed with small, unequal, irre- 

 gularly polygonal plates, of which that in the middle is 

 rather the largest; palatal teeth present to the number 

 generally of seven or eight on each side ; they are small, 

 strong, simple, and conical ; the collar is well-defined by 

 nine quadrangular scales; the sides of the neck beneath 

 are covered with granules, higher up, with round flat scales ; 

 the scales of the back are oblong, subhexagonal, tectiform, 

 slightly keeled, arranged in transverse rows, which contain, 

 near the neck, from three to seven, and on the centre of 

 the back seven scales each ; the scales of the upper part of 

 the sides are more distinctly hexagonal than those last 

 mentioned; the ventral plates are in six rows, without 

 counting a marginal row on each side containing twenty-four 

 to twenty-six plates, each of very small size ; of the six rows, 



