ACANTHODACTYLUS CAPENSIS. 



posterior loose edge of the scales forming it, triangular or slightly semilunar. 

 Preanal plates in two or three rows, the middle one of the two hindermost 

 rows much the largest and somewhat six-sided. Femoral pores twenty-eight. 

 Toes long, slender, and each externally edged with a serrated fringe consisting 

 of slender pointed scales. Length of adult specimens generally about ten 

 inches, of which the tail forms about six. 



This lizard is found on the sandy districts of Great Namaqualand, and where the surface of 

 the country is irregular it is generally met on the highest spots. Where small sand-hills 

 occur, it resorts to them in preference to the other localities, and, from the peculiar assistance 

 it derives from the serrated fringe which edge its toes, it runs over the loose sand on the steep 

 surfaces of those slopes, with great rapidity. It feeds upon small insects. 



