BUCEPHALUS CAPENSIS. 
wards on the side of the head to join the loral scale between the anti-ocular and 
rostral scales the hinder sides of the posterior frontal plates are slightly aic 
rostral sea , vertical plate is indistinctly six-sided, the two 
or indistinctly ^ards, and terminate in an obtuse 
hinder sides ex “ „ in . contact with the line where the two occipital plates 
foi^the^lateraT sides of the plate are longest; the palpebral plates are rather 
Cow and lengthened, the ChiCrCfX^'t £ 
anterior extremity somewhat icmnde , £ two sides being considera- 
broadest, indistinctly two-sided, the innerm * ^ irregularly flve-sided, 
bly longer than the outermost, occip < P °tholast though nearly 
and considerably wider at the base than and 
square, is nevertheless slightly two-sided. c _ anterior ocular scale 
quadrangular ; loral scale also small and quadrangular , < 
quadrangular, concave, and broadest posteriorly, its upper and I « ^ 
extending in the form of an angular elongation between 
and palpebral plates, in which situation it forms a portion 01 . ^ 
the upper surface of the head. Post-ocular scales three, forming a sem circle 
round the outer canthus of the eye ; temporal scales four 01 v ® in 1 ’ 
smooth, unequal, in regard of size, and somewhat six-site . ie 
the back and sides of the neck, close to the occipital plates, small and smoff , 
some of them quadrangular, others more or less diamond si ape , a < 
irregularly disposed ; the scales behind these aie carinate an c p 
arched transverse rows, the convexity of each row tow ar s t e iec 
form, &c., of the scales vary at diflerent parts of the lows, ' 
which, from its situation, may be called the dorsal scale is narrow owar s 
the base, and broad and semicircular at the point, this scale has a t is 
carina extending along its centre. The scales on each side of the orsa 
one are somewhat ovate, their points either angular, subtruncate, oi obtuse, 
the upper edge of each of these scales is nearly a straight line, the lower, 
very convex, and much arched ; the carina close to the superior edge, and 
generally terminating on the upper margin at some distance behind the points 
of the scales ; the two scales nearest to the abdominal plates on each side 
are larger than the others, very wide at the base, and rounded at the point, 
their figure is somewhat triangular; the carina in these is nearly centrah 
The hinder margin of each row of scales overlaps more or less oi the base of 
the row immediately behind it. and the outer edge of each of the scales 
which compose the rows is more or less covered by the timer edge of the scale 
immediately external to it, and in this way tl, ere is a double kind of 
imbrication. As far as the base of the tail the above are the characters and 
