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

in the young L. agilis subsp. exigua EICHW., the elements of the latter being, in their turn, easily homologizable with those present in the different stages of L. viridis LAUR. subsp. strigata EICHW. and subsp. maior BLGR. — to be somewhat lighter than the dark spots forming, by confluence, the meshwork just mentioned. Finally, the lowermost, or third, series of lateral ocelli occurring in the livery of the young Schreiberi, represents the residua of the subocular stripe (stria subocularis, MÉHELY). In strongly ocellate forms, such as the young specimens of L. ocellata pater, e. g., s

or even some young of the „typical" ocellata (from Portugal, for instance) further ocelli may be seen dorsad of the series corresponding to the supraciliary stripe, these ocelli apparently constituting the remnants of the dorsal stripe (stria dorsalis, MÉHELY) running, at both sides, along the unpaired dorso-median band which is the vitta occipitalis (MÉHELY). In the cases just cited there is no difference in colour to be seen between those ocelli that are the descendants of effectively white, or yellowish, striae, and those which have come out of the light interstices of the parietal band, to which range the typical axillar ocelli also pertain, often being of a blue colour that may successively extend caudad, invading the postaxillar ocelli as well, and even those that belong to the series of the subocular stripe; such is the case with L. ocellata, in which two superposed series of parietal band ocelli may occur, ventrally followed by the ocelli of the subocular stripe, also blue in colour, ventrad of which a fourth blue series is following, within the range of the maxillary band (vitta maxillaris, MÉHELY), the light interstices of its meshwork of yore having also evolved into ocelli. The dark elements surrounding the ocelli are in every case remnants of bands (vittae), and not of stripes (striae), becoming, sometimes, transversely attached to one another so as to form, in the young, dark crossbars containing the ocelli which, by such mode of connexion, appear as if they were disposed in transverse, instead of in longitudinal, rows. With respect to the pigmentation of the ocelli it should be remarked that in the L. viridis group blue is absent so far as back and flanks are concerned, this colour being confined to the head and neck only, where it occurs in the male and arrhenic females of certain forms, e. g. the „typical" form (L. viridis LAUR. s. str.) and the South Italian var. Fejérváryi VASV., whilst in others, such as subsp. strigata EICHW. and subsp. maior BLCR., it is never to be met with in any part of the body. In the L. ocellata group, on the other hand, blue is characteristic of the