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

XXX. ANNALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI. 1936. PARS ZOOLOGICA. NOTES ON A VERY LITTLE-KNOWN LIZARD: LACERTA PRINCEPS BLANF., WITH DESCRIPTION OF THE MALE SPECIMEN PRESERVED IN THE VIENNA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. (With Plate I.) By the late Baron G. J. DE FEJÉRVÁRT. The species Lacerta princeps was described, in 1874, by W. T. BLANFORD (2, p. 31), from a single type-specimen, a female, obtained in Southern Persia. His diagnosis runs as follows: „L. magna, fere sesquipedalis, dentibus palatalibus praedita; scutis postnasalibus utrinque binis, praefrontali unico, verticalis marginibus lateralibus parallelis, anteriore posterioreque in medio prominentibus ; squamis temporalibus polygonalibus, antice majoribus; coliari libero, denticulato; squamis dorsalibus rhombiodeis, carinatis, in series transversas ordinatis, ventralibus in series 10 longitudinales, extremas valde angustiores dispositis; poris femoralibus utrinque 14: supra griseoolivacea, subtus albida, maculis 4—5 caeruleis, nigro marginatis, longitudinaliter ordinatis, utrinque post axillam ornata." „Hab. in Persia meridionali." To this diagnosis the following lines are added: „Only a single specimen obtained. The form of the back-scales resembles that in the small species Lacerta Fitzingeri and its allies (Notopholis, GRAY, nec WAGLER)." Since that date only three original publications have appeared on the subject: In 1876 BLANFORD („Zoology and Geology of Eastern Persia", II, London, p. 364) (cited after 1. p. 123) gave a more detailed description of the same specimen, and stated that „it was shot" by his „collector in brushwood on a pass near Niriz, about 100 miles east of Shiraz, and at an elevation of about 7000 feet above the sea." (1, p. 125). In 1910 L. DE MÉHELY (11, p. 592—596) described a young specimen, collected by Mr. ZAROUDNI, at Sarkhoun (or, in German transcription, Sarchun), Persia, and belonging to the Zoological Museum