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

supero-anterior part of thigs and dorsal surface of foot. Second half of tail lighter, olive. Back brownish olive. No designs, the lateral ocellii excepted, which occur from the axillar region to the middle part of the trunk; their size decreases caudad; the ocellii are of bright blue bordered with deep black; these ocellii are, phylogenetically, the remnants of the band called vitta temporalis by DE MÉHELY in his most adequate and comprehensive terminology of the Lacertian livery, and perfectly applicable to the livery of any Vertebrate class in general, affording a safe basis upon which the several elements composing the striped livery or its derivatives, in Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals may be homologized. The black circuit of the ocellii corresponds to the black meshwork of the reduced and partly totally vanished vitta temporalis, whilst their blue centre represents the light interstices that have occurred between the dark meshes. Belly yellowish, about as in L. ocellata DAUD.; ventral surface of tail passing into olive brownish colour. No perceptible traces of a bluish tint in the gular region. — BLANFORD describes the type as follows: „Olivaceous grey above, whitish below; there are a few small black spots on the back and sides of the neck, and a row of 3 or 4 blue ocelli (those in front double), with black margins, behind each shoulder, extending in a line for a short distance down each side. The sides of the head are bluish, a tint especially marked on the labials; throat yellow." (3, p. 96). BOULENGER, after having quoted —- though, in formal respect, with some lack of preciseness — BLANFORD'S description, adds the following observation: „The specimen in the British Museum differs in being of a pale brownish grey above, without spots on the neck; there are three ocellar spots on each side, the first and second with two superposed blue centres; posterior two thirds of tail reddish." The livery of the young is described by DE MÉHELY as follows: „Ground colour olive grey above. Pileus unspotted, back, flanks, and upper surface of tail bestown with small, irregularly scattered spots. Flanks in the axillar region with indication of several light blue ocelli. Sides of head bluish grey. Lower surface of body yellowish white." (Translated from the German text 11, p. 596.). The above data afford evidence in favour of such supposition that there are no constant sexual differences set out in the livery, and if such should exist at all, they may consist in mere gradations