EREMIAS CAPENSIS.— Dum. et Bib. 



Reptilia.— Plate XLV. Fig. 2. 



E. superne subgrisea, lineis quinque longitudinalibus, nigro-brunneis varicgatis, linea media antiee furcata; 

 scutis nasalibusdisjunctis ; scuto parvo quadrangulari inter scuta fronto-nasalia ; dorsi squamis parvis 

 subcircularibus in ordinibus transversis dispositis, ct inter ordincs squamis minutissimis ; scutis ven- 

 tralibus ordinc transverso sexdecim ; poris femuralibus novera, aliquando undecim. 



Longitddo e nasi apice ad anum 2 unc. 3 lin. ; caudre 4 unc. 3 lin. 



Lacerta Capensis, Smith, Mag. of Zool. and Bot. (New Series) vol. ii. p. 93. 



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

 outer surface of the extremities, a brownish purple-red, the latter parts varie- 

 gated with a few scattered, small, whitish spots. The back and the upper 

 parts of the sides bluish grey variegated with five more or less defined longi- 

 tudinal liver-brown lines, which terminate on the base of the tail ; one of these 

 lines, the narrowest, extends along the middle of the back, is forked towards 

 the head, and posteriorly consists in general of only a series of fine short streaks, 

 the others, two on each side, are rather broader, and consist of irregularly 

 shaped spots, in some specimens like the letter X, and more or less con- 

 nected. The upper surface of the tail pale yellowish grey, towards the base 

 tinted with asparagus-green. The under surface of the head, the body, and 

 the tail, and the inner surfaces of the extremities, yellowish white. Toes and 

 claws light yellowish brown, with a semi-transparent appearance. Eyes dark 

 chestnut-brown. 



Form, &c. — Body moderately robust, sides rather bulging ; head lengthened, 

 posteriorly rather broad and four sided, anteriorly narrow and tapered ; nose 

 slightly obtuse and rounded. Temples slightly protuberant. Nasal plates sepa- 

 rated from each other by the intervention of the anterior and lengthened angle 

 of the rhomboidal naso-rostral plate ; fron to-nasal plates apart, with a small sub- 

 quadrangular plate connecting them ; frontal plate lengthened, club-shaped, and 

 its anterior and posterior edges arched ; fronto-parietal plates contiguous ; in- 

 terparietal rhomboidal, broadest anteriorly, and with a small granular elevation 



