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localities in tlie Zoutpansberg District. These no doubt belong to 
the species which was described (Zool. Jahrb, 1890, p. 605) as inter- 
medins by Matschie from specimens which were captured at Haenerts- 
burg, which is quite near to Woodbush. Mr. Boulenger now (P.Z.S., 
1907, p. 484) reduces intermedins Matsch. as a synonym of P. guttatus 
Smith. It is very probable indeed that Smith’s specimens came 
from the same district, as his locality record is “the neighbourhood 
of the Limpopo River near the tropic of Capricorn”. 
Our Woodbush specimens agree with the description of the type 
specimen, a half-grown male, as given in the B.M. Catalogue for 
P. guttatus , but they do not agree so well with Smith’s original 
description, for he states that the nasal plates are contiguous, which 
is not the case in any of our specimens, and, moreover, he describes 
the third and fourth fingers as equal in length, whereas, in all our 
specimens, the fourth is distinctly longer than the third. 
These Zoutpansberg lizards, referable to the species P . guttatus, 
have the following characters, some of which are of diagnostic 
importance : — 
The occipital is usually small, triangular, subtriangular, or very 
small and oval, not reaching the interparietal ; occasionally there is, 
between the occipital and the interparietal an oblong or elongated 
triangular scute, and in one case only out of more than thirty 
specimens examined, the occipital itself (or more correctly a scute 
formed by the fusion of occipital with the intermediate scute found 
in other specimens) reaches the interparietal, forming with it a suture 
which, however, is very short. 
The ventral scutes are usually in sixteen longitudinal rows, but 
sometimes there are eighteen, and rarely as many as twenty ; these 
scutes are transversely elongated in the abdominal region, sometimes 
being twice as broad as long, but in juvenile specimens this may not 
be the case. 
The dorsal scales have in some slight degree a differentiation in 
size such as I have described for P . wilhelmi, but this is not so 
pronounced as in the latter species, nor is there such an intermingling 
of granules with the scales proper. 
The males have red tails, the throat and belly are of a deep 
blue colour, and the dorsal surface is uniformly dark with a blue 
tinge — in life the dorsal coloration is a handsome vivid green — the 
females have pale tails, the belly is pale with blue centre, the throat 
is white but striped with oblique black lines, whilst the dorsal surface 
is of the same ground colour as in the male, but has also numerous: 
small pale spots and usually also three pale longitudinal lines of which 
the two lateral lines are broader and often ill-defined ; rarely the 
male also has pale spots dorsally. Our largest examples of this 
species reach a length of 260 mm. 
Rhodesian specimens, as represented in the collections of the 
Rhodesian Museum, present a few points of difference from the Wood- 
bush series. The adult males from Khami River and Matopo Hills 
agree precisely, except that they are somewhat larger and the belly 
(but not the throat) is blackish ; the females differ from the Woodbush 
specimens in that the three dorsal lines are sharply defined and have 
no pale spots between them, but they agree in the dorsal scaling, and 
in one case only (out of ten) the elongated interparietal forms a 
comparatively wide suture with the occipital. In this latter case the 
