ACANTHODACTYLUS CAPENSIS.-Smith. 



Reptilia. — Plate XXXIX. a, Male ; b, Female. 



Mas. A. superne flavo-brunneus, lateribus nigro-brunneis, et macularura albarurn seriebus duabus 

 et lineis duabus longitudinalibus ejusdem coloris variegatis ; partibus inferioribus ochraceis ; digitis 

 externe dentatis. 



Fem. Superne pallide aurantius, lateribus rubro-aurantiis superne inferneque linea subalbida marwinatis ; 

 partibus inferioribus ochraceis, versus latera nigro brunneo-tessellatis. 



Longitudo e naso ad basin caudse mas ; 4 unc. 6 lin ; caudae G unc. 



Colour, (Male.) — The upper surface of the head, the middle of the back, 

 and the upper surface of the tail intermediate between yellowish brown and 

 reddish orange, the first irregularly mottled with dashes of umber-brown and 

 the back is freckled with small liver-brown dots, and marked with a short line 

 of the same colour from centre of hind head. The sides of the body and of the 

 tail at its base liver-brown, variegated with two longitudinal white bands, the 

 uppermost commencing at the hind head and ending a little way beyond the 

 base of the tail ; the lowermost begins below, and behind the eye is broken 

 by the intervention of the meatus auditorius externus, and terminates in front 

 of base of hinder leg : over the first of these bands there is a stripe of small 

 roundish spots of the colour of the back, only lighter, and between them a 

 longitudinal row of round rusty white ones. The sides of the belly below 

 the lowermost white line the same colour as the sides, the remainder of the 

 belly, throat, under surface of legs, and tail, pale ochre-yellow. Upper 

 surface of extremities liver-brown freely speckled with irregular yellowish 

 white spots ; toes transparent yellowish brown above freckled with umber- 

 brown. Sides of head umber-brown, the lips, a line under the eye, and the 

 edges of some of the scales towards hinder parts of lower jaw straw-yellow. 



Female. — The upper surface of the head brownish yellow ; the back and 

 centre of the tail above intermediate between Dutch and deep reddish 

 orange ; the sides of body and tail near its base intermediate between 

 orpiment-orange and tile-red, and these two tints are kept separate from each 

 other by the intervention of a narrow longitudinal whitish band, which 

 commences at the hind head and terminates about the commencement of the 



