1. Lengtli from snout to vent. 2. Number of scales across middle of body. 

 3. Longitudinal series of ventral plates. 4. Transverse series of ventral plates. 

 5. Plates in collar. 6. Gular scales in a straight line between symphysis of 

 chin-shields and median collar-plate. 7. Femoral pores (right and left if differ- 

 ing). 8. Lamellar scales under fourth toe. 9. Scales between supraocula.rs and 

 superciliaries. 



Habitat. — The range of N. intertexta extends from Portuguese East 

 Africa, Nyassaland, and Angola to the northern and eastern parts of 

 Cape Colony. 



5. ISrUCEAS TBSSELLATA. 



Lacerta tessellata, A. Smith, Mag. JST. H. (2) ii, 1838, p. 92 ; Dum. 

 & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 244 (1839) ; Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 

 1886, p. 374. 



Lacerta livida, A. Smith, I.e. 



Lacerta elegans, A. Smith, I.e. 



Lacerta tasniolata, A. Smith, t.c, p. 93 ; Dum. & Bibr. t.c, p. 247; 

 Bedriaga, t.c, p. 381. 



Zootoca tseniolata, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 29 (1846). 



Nucras tessellata, Gray, op. cit., p. 33 ; Werner, Jen. Denkschr. iv, 

 1910, p. 329 ; Bouleng. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xiii, 1917, p. 212, pi. vii. 



Teira ornata, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 58. 



Lacerta tessellata, part., Peters, Eeise Mossamb. iii, p. 44 (1882). 



Lacerta tessellata, subsp. pseudotessdlata, Bedriaga, t.c , p. 377 pi 

 figs. 8, 21. 



Nucras tessellata, part., Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 52 (1887). 



Nucras tessellata, var. elegans, livida, tseninlata, Bouleng. Ann. S 

 Afr. Mus. V, 1910, p. 474. 



