. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. B. Figure 4. Lacerta spp. from northern Iraq. Head, lateral view, of; A, L trilineata media, MCZ 56665, adult $ . B, L (. media, MCZ 56671, iuvenile. C, L cf. strigata, MCZ 56666, juvenile |?). Scale bars: 10 mm. Measnirements. The adult male—Snout- vent: 128 mm. Tail: 260 mm. The juve- niles—Snout-vent; 36—44 mm. Tail: (n=2): 177-190 per cent of snout-vent length. Coloration. The adult male shows scarcely any distinguishable pattern. The whole head is covered with a fine blackish reticulum of vermiform lines; the dor
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. B. Figure 4. Lacerta spp. from northern Iraq. Head, lateral view, of; A, L trilineata media, MCZ 56665, adult $ . B, L (. media, MCZ 56671, iuvenile. C, L cf. strigata, MCZ 56666, juvenile |?). Scale bars: 10 mm. Measnirements. The adult male—Snout- vent: 128 mm. Tail: 260 mm. The juve- niles—Snout-vent; 36—44 mm. Tail: (n=2): 177-190 per cent of snout-vent length. Coloration. The adult male shows scarcely any distinguishable pattern. The whole head is covered with a fine blackish reticulum of vermiform lines; the dorsal scales of the tail and the larger scales of the limbs are similarly adorned. Most ven- tral scales (of all parts) are a dark grey with light margins. All juveniles have a light vertebral line from occiput to pelvis; on either side there are two similar lines, and a third interrupted one. The five medial lines are sharply delimited, each about two scales broad; the lateralmost pair coincides with the marginalia. Remarks. The pholidosis of our material is in perfect accord with the diagnosis given for this subspecies by G. Peters (1946a: 243). It is interesting to compare the mean values of our counts with those mapped by Peters (1964a: figs. 2-8). While most of our values are more or less the same as those found in the areas of Adana-Amanus and Armenia, or inter- mediate between them when these differ, the number of scales across the back is somewhat higher in Havdian. The differ- ence in tail length between our male (203% of snout-vent length) and juveniles (177-190 7f ) is in full agreement with the ontogenetic allometry described by Peters (1964a: fig. 10). No Lacerta trilineata has apparently been recorded from Iraq so far (nor, in- deed, any member of the genus Lacerta). The range of L. /. media covers, according to Mertens and Wermuth (1960: 150), northeast Asia Minor, the Caucasus, and the areas to the southeast, to Mardin (SE Anatolia). Peters (1964a: 243) give
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