96 LACERTID A, 
round light spots among the black ones, or along the black bands; 
limbs with round whitish, black-edged spots ; lower surfaces white. 
3 2. 
millim millim 
Total length ........ 0. c cece eee 167 178 
GOO 2s b ceagiea's Hee es Wah wees 13 13 
Width of head .......... 0.000 10 10 
From end of snout to fore limb...... 21 23 
From end of snout to vent ........ 57 62 
Fore Hm) .ccscce sed eae eas 22 22 
ind, Ln 6 6p essevteacs dues es ble ale we dees 34 33 
TAU odes fave caries Obonlee ata rwar@ anche Savarese 110 116 
South Africa. 
a,b. 2. 8. Africa. Earl of Derby [P.}. 
cS. Cape Colony. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 
da 3. Kaffraria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. pt 
e-g. & & her. Karroo. Sir A, Smith [P.]. 
15. Eremias capensis. 
Eremias capensis, Gray, Cat. p. 40. 
Lacerta capensis, Smith, Mag. N. H. ii. 1888, p. 93. 
Eremias capensis, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 302; Smith, Ill. 8. Afr., Rept. 
pl. xlv. fig. 2, and pl. xlviii. fig. 7; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, 
p. 114. 
—— laticeps, Smith, J. c. pl. xlvi. fig. 1, and pl. xlviii. fig. 3. 
Head moderate; snout obtuse. Nasals swollen ; frontonasal form- 
ing a suture with the rostral; two prefrontals, forming a very short 
suture, or separated by a small azygos shield ; frontal not grooved; 
two large supraoculars, bordered anteriorly, posteriorly, and exter- 
nally, and sometimes internally, with granules ; four or five granules 
on a line between the loreal and the anterior supraocular, the length 
of which is less than its distance from the loreal ; one or two series 
of granules between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; inter- 
parietal pentagonal, longer than the suture between the fronto- 
parietals, in contact with an occipital; temporal scales granular, 
smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; lower eyelid with a semitrans- 
parent disk formed of several small scales; subocular bordering 
the lip, between the fifth and sixth, sixth and seventh, or 
seventh and eighth upper labials; the three anterior pairs of chin- 
shields in contact. Collar straight, perfectly free, with 9 to 11 
plates. Dorsal scales round, flat, perfectly smooth, granular 
or slightly imbricate, 50 to 55 across the middle of the body. 
Ventral plates not broader than long, forming 14 or 16 rather irre- 
gular longitudinal, and 32 to 36 angular transverse series. Pre- 
anal scales small, subequal, irregular. The adpressed hind limb 
reaches the ear or the eye; the length of the foot equals the 
distance between the arm and the anterior border of the orbit 
or the nostril; a series of very large subtibial shields and one 
