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numerous white ocelli in three or four series on the back and three 

 series on each side ; a white vertebral streak on the nape, which may 

 be continued, interrupted, on the body ; sides of head and neck with 

 black and white vertical bars ; upper orbital border whitish ; a white 

 streak on each parietal shield, continuous with the outer dorsal series 

 of ocelli; tail coral-red. In a larger young (43 mm.), from Kokong. 

 Bechuaualand, the dorsal markings are the same, but the ocelli on the 

 sides of the body have fused to form vertical bars (PI. VI, fig. 7). 



A half-grown female, from Rusteuburg, Transvaal, is reddish brown 

 above, with an interrupted light, black-edged vertebral streak, a dorso- 

 lateral series of ocelli, and three series of ocelli on each side, the lower of 

 which are more or less confluent into a light longitudinal streak from 

 the shoulder to the root of the hind limb ; head and neck as in the 

 preceding (PI. VI, fig. 6). 



A half-grown male, from Rustenburg, Transvaal, is similar to the 

 preceding, but the white eyes of the ocelli on the nape are in the form 

 of longitudinal lines, whilst the black borders of the ocelli run together 

 to form cross-bands on the back, as is frequent in JV. delalandii, from 

 the young of which it is hardly to be distinguished, so far as the 

 coloration is concerned. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb . 

 Hind limb . 

 Foot . 

 Tail . 



1. ?, type, Latakoo. 2. ?, Pietersburg, Transvaal. 3. $ , Kus- 

 tenburg, Transvaal. 



Under the name of var. holubi, Stdr., I group together a number 

 of specimens which, whilst agreeing essentially in structure with 

 N. intertexta, differ from the type in the back being striated through- 

 out life. 





Var. holubi. 



Lacerta tessellata, part., Peters, Reise Mossamb., iii, p. 44 (1882). 

 Eremias holubi, Steind., Sizb. Ak. Wien, Ixixvi, i, 1882, p. 83, pi. . 



