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rows of ventrals, and it agrees with the other specimen in having forty- 
four scales across the body dorsally, and there is a row of granules between 
the supraoculars and supraciliaries. The adpressed limbs just meet, and 
the hind limbs are large and long ; the fourth supraocular is broken up into 
granules, which sometimes occurs in tessellata, but I have not met with it 
in delalandi, and there is an indication of the commencement of the same 
process in the other specimen ; on the other hand it is in general habit 
somewhat different from the other specimen, and from ordinary tessellata, 
being appreciably stouter in head and body. 
Miss Wilman has taken several specimens of tessellata in the Kim- 
berley neighbourhood. They are normal in colour marking, and the dorsal 
scales number forty-six and forty-nine respectively. Another very doubtful 
specimen of this genus came from Shilouwane (Zoutpansberg District). 
In general build it resembles delalandi, but differs in that the body is 
relatively shorter, so that the limbs just overlap. In colour it shows a 
resemblance to delalandi, but nevertheless it is quite distinct from the 
normal forms of that species ; it is ocellated dorsally, the ocelli having 
white centre and black margins, but they are arranged, though not very 
definitely, in longitudinal lines, the ocelli themselves being longitudinally 
elongated anteriorly. There is a thin pale black-margined mid-dorsal 
line, interrupted in places, and the belly is uniformly white. There are 
only thirty-one transverse rows of ventrals, and there are forty-four scales 
across the middle of the back, whereas four specimens, of same size, and 
coming from adjacent localities in the Zoutpansberg District (viz., Haenerts- 
burg and Great Letaba River), are typically delalandi, and have the ventral 
rows varying in number from thirty- three to thirty-five, ard the scales of a 
transverse row dorsally, ranging from thirty-seven to forty. The tail is thick 
as in delalandi, but the foot is elongated, much as in tessellata, and there is a 
couple of granules between the supraoculars and supraciliaries. On the 
whole I think this should be regarded as an immature form of delalandi, 
a conclusion which is based upon the general habitus of the specimen. 
A juvenile specimen of a Nucras from Grahams town presents an un- 
usual type of colour marking ; the dorsal surface is blackish, with eight 
(parts of ten) thin yellow longitudinal lines, and there are no spots or 
transverse markings at the sides. There are thirty transverse rows of 
scales ventrally, and forty-three scales in a transverse row dorsally. There 
is on each side a row of four granules between the supraoculars and the 
supraciliaries. The adpressed limbs overlap, but not greatly so. This 
specimen I refer to tessellata. 
It is evident from the above that the two species are very closely 
related, and in some cases the distinctive characters do not appear until 
the individual is fully adult. 
Ichnotropis capensis Smith.— This lizard is common on the veld in 
the Pretoria neighbourhood. It exhibits a very considerable seasonable 
variation in colour, the sombre attire of the winter season being in marked 
contrast to the brilliant hues of breeding specimens. The life colours 
of a breeding pair, taken on 14th October, 1909, are as follows : The male 
reddish-brown above ; a series of ill-defined and almost confluent black 
spots dorso-laterally ; more laterally a broad black band, starting from 
