BUCEPHALUS CAPENSIS. 
Variety B. — Plate XII. 
Bucephalus Typicus, Smith , Zoological Journal, vol. iv. p. 441. 
Colour. — The head, the back, the sides of the body, and the upper parts of 
the tail, a clear reddish or yellowish-brown, the depth of the tint different in 
different individuals, but always lightest at and towards the extremities of 
the abdominal plates. The under surface of the head, the belly, and the 
under parts of the tail, either a pale wood-brown, or a wine-yellow, and more 
or less variegated with small spots of yellowish brown. Eyes in some silvery 
grey, in others light grass-green. 
Form, &c. — The general figure of this variety as well as the shape of its head, 
and the characters and distribution of its scales and plates, the same as in the 
varieties already described. The following are the measurements, &c., of two 
specimens : — 
SEX OF 
LENGTH FROM NOSE 
LENGTH OF 
ABDOMINAL 
SUBCAUDAL 
SPECIMEN. 
TO BASE 
OF TAIL. 
TAIL. 
PLATES. 
SCALES. 
Ft. 
In. 
Ft. 
In. 
No. 
No. 
Male 
3 
n 
1 
3 
190 
lie-lie 
Male 
3 
1 
2J 
178 
101-101 
The Female of the same colour and figure as the male. 
Young. — Plate XIII. 
Bucephalus Gutturalis, Smith, Zoological Journal, vol. iy. p. 442. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, above the upper lip, 
clear yellowish brown, inclined to honey-yellow ; the upper and lower lips 
cream-yellow. The back and upper part of the sides greenish black, 
variegated with narrow transverse bars, consisting in part of small greenish 
white spots, and in part of narrow longitudinal lines ; the spots are situated 
towards the outer edges of the scales near their points, and never exceed one 
on a scale ; the lines are in the course of the carina, and rarely extend 
beyond its base. The lower portions of the sides of the body, and the under 
surfaces of the body and tail, cream-yellow, freely freckled, or marked with 
livid yellowish brown and the throat besides is variegated with one or more 
transverse blotches or bars of a reddish orange colour. In many speci- 
mens the hinder edge of each abdominal plate is marked with a narrow 
