LACERTA MURALIS VAR. BOCAGEI SEOANE. 211 
Laur.) — which does not seem likely to be found in Portugal — are also 
inhabited by the var. Bocagei Seoane; however the accurate statement 
of this would necessitate a detailed examination of the material on which 
Ferreira based his description, for monticola, Vaucheri and Bocagei appear 
to be confused in the said publication under the synonyms of L. muralis 
Laur. and L. muralis var. fusca Bedr. 
This form was also collected in numerous places ofNorth-Africa 
(Boulenger, 4, p. 415.), viz. from: Tamaruth Valley in the Atlas of Mo¬ 
rocco (by Riggenbach), Tlemsen near Oran (by J. Anderson), Mascara, 
and in the Algerian localities : Plateau de Sersou, Aumale, Setif, Daya 
and Tebesa. 
From what has been here stated, we may see that the geographical 
distribution of the var. Bocagei Seoane is fairly extended, and an accurate 
statement of it would be most desirable. 
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Having but a limited number of specimens at my disposal I shall 
not venture to emit here an opinion as to the systematic or phylogenetic 
relations of the form treated. Besides a detailed study of the muralis- like 
lizards inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula and the Northern parts of Africa 
would be an important postulatum to such considerations, as the Bocagei 
probably is much closer related to those forms than to the central european 
Lacerta muralis Laur. or other muralis -like lizards of its adjacent territory. 1 
The descritiption given here above founded on the 15 specimens and 
3 skulls examined, could thus only offer a mere basis to a more complete 
knowledge of this interesting form, which presents in several respects a 
mixture of Archaeo- and Neolacerta-like characters. It will belong to future 
outer morphological and anatomical investigations based on vast material 
of all the lizards to be taken into consideration regarding this question, 
to determine to which of the two groups above mentioned the Bocagei 
belongs, to which form it may be related, and which systematic rank it 
may claim. 
1 It may not be impossible that more ample investigation based on a larger material, 
would proove that the Portuguese Bocagei here described as well as those originating from 
certain other localities of Portugal, might differ from the Spanish specimens in yet more 
important characteristics than those mentioned here above. 
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