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the shoulders ; scales on upper surface of tibia scarcely larger than the 
posterior dorsals ; distance of loreal from first supraocular usually much 
greater than length of latter shield. Supraoculars sometimes bordered 
entirely or nearly so with granules. Brownish above, often with four or 
six (with commencement of a seventh as a median dorsal streak) 
longitudinal blackish bands, each enclosing a series of pale spots; some- 
times with irregularly arranged ocelli. E. lineocellata D.B. 
Lower eyelid granular , or with a number of more or less transparent 
scales. 
(1) A curved bandlike scale on the supero-anterior border of the ear. 
Ventrals in ten or twelve longitudinal series ; lower eyelid transparent, 
with four or five plates of unequal size ; distance between loreal and first 
supraocular equal to the length of the latter. Uniformly grey above, 
with some pale spots on the sides of the body. E. inornata Roux. 
Ventrals in twelve longitudinal series ; lower eyelid with a semi- 
transparent disk, formed of several scales; distance between loreal and 
first supraocular equal to or slightly less than the length of latter. Pale 
buff above, with four white streaks enclosed by five longitudinal blackish 
bands, the median one bifurcate on the nape ; sometimes a series of whitish 
dots on the black bands. E. namaquensis D.B. 
(2) No bandlike scale on the supero-anterior border of ear. Lower eyelid 
entirely granular ; three large supraoculars ; ventrals in twelve longi- 
tudinal series ; occipital scale usually absent. Grey, with small black 
spots dorsally. E. suborbitalis Pet. 
Lower eyelid with a semi-transparent disk formed of several small scales ; 
ventrals in fourteen to sixteen longitudinal series ; two or three small 
scales or granules between loreal and first supraocular ; nasals feebly 
swollen; frontonasal separated from rostral; sixty-five to seventy-five 
scales across the middle of the back. Grey or brown above, with small 
or large black spots, sometimes forming three or four bands on the body, 
five on the nape, the bands extending on the head shields ; round 
light spots along the black bands or among the black spots. 
E. burchelli D.B. 
Differing from burchelli thus : four or five granules between the 
loreal and the first supraocular ; fronto-nasal usually in contact with 
rostral ; the nasals swollen ; about fifty to fifty-five scales across the 
middle of the back. Coppery-brown above, with black reticulations 
sometimes confined to the sides ; sometimes a light or dark vertebral 
band bifurcating on the nape, and one or two light lateral bands ; occasion- 
ally general colour is blackish, with pale bands and spots. 
E. capensis Smith. 
Nucras. 
Adpressed limbs overlapping ; ventrals in twenty-seven to thirty- 
three transverse series ; forty to sixty-two dorsal scales across the middle 
of the body ; a few granules between the supraoculars and supraciliaries. 
Upper parts brownish, with or without dark and light longitudinal lines ; 
the sides usually dark-brown, with white vertical bars or pale round spots 
arranged in longitudinal rows and occasionally forming continuous lines ; 
lower surfaces white, immaculate. N. tessellata Smith. 
