294 Laceriidce. 



small dai-k spots, usually with two more or less distinct light streaks 

 on each side, the upper of which may be dark-edged on the inner 

 side; ocelli usually absent, sometimes present but ill-defined; a few 

 (males and females) with four or five blue ocelli in a series on each 

 side.* 



The upper head-shields are smooth or feebly i-ugose ; only in 8 

 specimens are the prefrontals separated from each other and in 7 is a 

 complete series of granules present on the inner side of the supra- 

 oculars ; 12 have the three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact 

 with each other, and 2 have only three chin-shields on each side. The 

 scales are less strongly keeled than in the specimens from Warrendale, 

 and in two of the specimens from Lower ISTorob they are very feebly 

 keeled ; the number across the middle of the body varies between 53 

 and 69. The auricular denticulation is, in a few specimens, quite 

 indistinct or absent. 



Var. PULCHELLA, Gray. 



I have formerly united under the name of E. pulelieUa, G-rav, a 

 number of colour-varieties, some of which agree very closely with 

 those known in E. lineo-ocellata but which differ in the scales being 

 smooth, or more or less distinctly keeled on the posterior half of 

 the body only, where they are usually a little smaller, merging less 

 gradually into the caudals. I now find that the two supposed species 

 are so completely connected in the degree of carination of the scales 

 as well as in their size as to render the distinction almost arbitrary ; 

 I therefore have no hesitation in uniting them, and 1 even doubt 

 whether the separation of E. iiulchella as a variety reflects the 

 state of things in Nature. As mentioned above, this variety is not 

 a "Western geographical form, as believed by Hewitt, specimens with 

 the scales keeled from between the shoulders occurring iu Damaraland 

 with others in which only the posterior dorsal scales are feebly keeled. 



The proportions and the lepidosis, apart from greater smoothness 

 of the dorsal scales, the posterior of which are always much smaller 

 than those on the tibia, are the same as in the typical form. I need 

 only note that 6 anterior upper labials is as frequent as 4, 5 being the 

 usual number, that an azygos shield between the prefrontals is less 

 frequent,t and that the frontal is more rarely separated from the 

 supraoculars by a series of granules % ; the frontonasal is exceptionally 



* Similar specimens, from Abeam Upington (Lennox Coll.), are also in the 

 Kimberley Museum, 

 t In 9 specimens out of 22. 

 J In 5 specimens. 



