ERE MI AS LUGUBRIS.— Dum. et Bib. 
Reptilia. — Plate XLVI. Fig. 2. 
V suoerne nigro brunnea, linois flavis continuis interruptisve tribus variegatis ; scutis nasalibus contiguis ; 
' scutis magnis supra oculos squamis parvis granulosis circumdatis; scutis ventralibus in ordme 
transverso sex; poris femoralibus sexdecim. 
Longituuo e nasi apice ad anura 2 unc. ; caudte 5 unc. 
Lacerta luguhris, Smith, Mag. of Zool. and Bot. (New Series) vol. ii. p. 93. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head yellowish brown shaded with 
brownish red, the sides cream-yellow. The back and sides o tie o y ivei 
brown, variegated with longitudinal stripes and spots of gam oge-ye ow. 
The stripes, three or five in number, commence at the posterior pait o ie 
head, and three of them extend some distance beyond the origin ot t ie tai , 
the remaining two, which are generally very indistinct, exist one on each side 
near to the abdominal plates, and are only visible between the anterior an 
posterior extremities. The spots, near to the head, are disposed in the form ot 
bands, one between each two longitudinal stripes. Between the ear and the 
base of each anterior extremity, a waved yellow line exists, and a similar one 
extends between the eye and the hindhead, its termination being immediately 
over the commencement of the upper line of the side. The outer surface of 
the extremities brownish red, clouded with liver-brown, and finely freck e 
with lemon-yellow. The under surface of the head, the body, the tail, an 
the inner surface of the extremities, yellowish white ; upper surface of tail, 
yellowish brown. Eyes, deep chestnut-brown. 
The above are the colours of the specimen figured, but it may not fall to 
the lot of another person to obtain one exactly like it. I am not acquaintec 
with any lizard which varies so greatly in regard of colour ; some specimens 
are obtained almost entirely black, with three yellow lines, others with the 
lines broken into linear spots, and others again with the sides and back, y 
lowish brown, variegated with lines either yellow or light buff-orange 
Form &c.— Body moderately robust, and subcylindncal, tail much lengt - 
ened and very slender towards and at the point ; head somewhat four-sided, 
only * slightly depressed, the sides posteriorly slightly convex ; nose narrow 
and rounded. Nasal plates contiguous; naso-rostral somewhat rhomboidal, 
and more pointed behind than before ; fronto-nasal contiguous ; frontal long 
broadest anteriorly, and arched where it is in contact with the fronto-nasal 
plates ; fronto-parietal, rather small, rhomboidal, and with a granule on its 
