BUCEPHALUS CAPENSIS. 



Variety B. — Plate XII. 



Bucephalus Typicus, Smith, Zoological Journal, vol. iv. p. 441. 



Colour. — The head, the back, the sides of the body, and the upper parts of 

 the tail, a clear reddish or yellowish-brown, the depth of the tint different in 

 different individuals, but always lightest at and towards the extremities of 

 the abdominal plates. The under surface of the head, the belly, and the 

 under parts of the tail, either a pale wood-brown, or a wine-yellow, and more 

 or less variegated with small spots of yellowish brown. Eyes in some silvery 

 grey, in others light grass-green. 



Form, &c. — The general figure of this variety as well as the shape of its head, 

 and the characters and distribution of its scales and plates, the same as in the 

 varieties already described. The following are the measurements, &c, of two 

 specimens : — 



The Female of the same colour and figure as the male. 



Young. — Plate XIII. 



Bucephalus Gutturalis, Smith, Zoological Journal, vol. iv. p. 442. 



Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, above the upper lip, 

 clear yellowish brown, inclined to honey-yellow ; the upper and lower lips 

 cream-yellow. The back and upper part of the sides greenish black, 

 variegated with narrow transverse bars, consisting in part of small greenish 

 white spots, and in part of narrow longitudinal lines ; the spots are situated 

 towards the outer edges of the scales near their points, and never exceed one 

 on a scale ; the lines are in the course of the carina, and rarely extend 

 beyond its base. The lower portions of the sides of the body, and the under 

 surfaces of the body and tail, cream-yellow, freely freckled, or marked with 

 livid yellowish brown and the throat besides is variegated with one or more 

 transverse blotches or bars of a reddish orange colour. In many speci- 

 mens the hinder edge of each abdominal plate is marked with a narrow 



