×Description of Lacerta sicula klemmeri n. subsp. from the islet of Licosa (about 50 km south of Salerno, Campania, Italy, Thyrrhenian Sea), a blue-bellied, feebly melanistic, patternless, giant sicula-species, distinguished from the other strongly blue- bellied races of the same species as follows:
L. sicula klemmeri n. subsp.: much !arger than L. s. paulae and L. s. salfii (maximum head and body length: 8 85 mm, S2 78 mm); dorsally reticulated or striated specimens lacking; less melanistic than L. s. coerulea, L. s. salfii and L. s. paulae; on the whole less cyanistic than L. s. coerulea and L. s. paulae; scutum massetericum always present; mid- body scales: 8 68-73 (69,8), S2 59-70 (64,5).
L. sicula coerulea (EIMER) (islets Faraglione di Fuori and Faraglione di Mezzo, near the island of Capri, Prov. of Napoli, Campania): same size; dorsally reticulated or striated specimens present; more melanistic and, on the whole, more cyanistic than L. s. klemmeri; scutum massetericum almost always present; midbody scales: 8 67-79 (73,4), S2 67-71 (68,6).
L. sicula paulae LANZA, ADRIAN! & RoMrTI (islet S. Ianni, 3 km south of Maratea, Lucania): much smaller than L. s. klemmeri (maximum head and body length: 8 71 mm, S2 66 mm); all the population is dorsally reticulated; more melanistic and, on the whole, more cyanistic than L. s. klemmeri; scutum massetericum almost always lacking or, if present, extremely small; midbody scales: 8 73-78 (75,7), 76 in the only known female.
L. sicula salfii LANZA (islet Vivaro di Nerano, Gulf of Salerno, Campania): much smaller than L. s. klemmeri (maximum head and body length: 8 78 mm, S2 72 mm); all the population is dorsally reticulated; more melanistic than L. s. klemmeri; scutum massetericum always present; midbody scales: 8 65-73 (68,5), S2 61-70 (66,0).
Some of the less cyanistic specimens of L. s. klemmeri (halfgrown ones!) look like ehe patternless and more cyanistic individuals of L. sicula mertensi WETTSTEIN, a feebly differentiated continental race inhabiting the region of Paestum, Giungano and Capac- cio in the Gulf of Salerno.
