Zsivny Viktor (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 30. (Budapest 1936)

Fejérváry, G. J.: Notes on a very little-known lizard: Lacerta princeps Blanf., with description of the male specimen preserved in the Vienna Natural History Museum

BOULENGER this suture is stated to be short; frontonasal about es­times broader than long, surrounded by 8 shields, the four laterals of which are the upper postnasal and the loreal of either side; its­shape is rather octagonal than hexagonal (DE MÉHELY describes it as a transversely elongate octagon in the young), the two anterior sides of the hexagon being somewhat longer than the two posterior ones, whilst the lateral sides are the shortest; prefrontals meeting in a moderately long median suture, medioposteriorly ending in a short tranverse line (i. e. not pointed), broadly separating the frontal from the first supraocular; frontal as long as the distance of its medio­anterior end from the anterior point of frontonasal; its anterior part escutcheon-like, with 4 corners the median part being very bluntly rounded forming a nearly straight line; lateral sides slightly concave; posterior end tricuspid, the median cusp, or point, being the longest; in the middle region broader than the width of the whole of the supraciliary lamina 5 measured in the same transversal line; supraciliary granules present only in the medial portion of the supraciliary plate's length, forming an uninterrupted series composed of 3 granules on either side between supraoculars and superciliaries; the number of granules is „very few" „along the exterior edge of the central superciliaries" in BLANFORD'S type (1, p. 124 footnote), 6 on the right and 4 on the left in the young described by DE MÉHELY, 4 and 3 in the female of the British Museum examined by BOULENGER; superciliaries 5 on either side, the 1 st being the longest; suture be­tween 1 st and 2 nd rounded caudad: this suture is oblique in dorso­caudal direction in the young, „very oblique" in the female of the British Museum: parietals considerably longer than the distance between the anterior border of frontal and the tip of the snout, about as long as the distance between the medio-posterior point of frontal and the half of the frontonasal's length; lateral border much convex largely separated from 1 st supratemporal intruding between them; occipital large, subtriangular, anteriorly rather rounded; posterior border twice as broad as greatest width of interparietal, its length, about equalling the distance measured from its anterior border to­somewhat rostrad of sharply pronounced pineal eye which lies in the anterior part of interparietal. Interparietal medium sized, pen­tangular, its length equalling half of the frontal's. 6 = Supraoculare II. + granules + supraciliaria.

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