CORDYLUS (HEMICORDYLUS) CAPENSIS.— Smith. 
Reptilia. Plate XXVII. Fig. 2. 
C. capite, dorso, lateribus, extremitatibus caudaque superne profunde purpureo-brunneis ; gutture, pectore, 
ventre caudaque interne brunneo-rubris ; pedibus inferne-pallidiflavo-brunneis ; squamis dorsi mag- 
nis quadrangularibus et carinatis, latcrum parvis granulosis. 
Longitudo e naso ad basin caudse 4 unc. ; caudre 5 unc. 9 lin. 
Hemicordylus Capensis, Smith, Magazine of Natural History, vol. 2. p. 32. 
Zonurus Capensis, Dum. et Bib. Erpet. General, tom. v. p. 360. 
Colour. — The head, back, sides, extremities, and upper and lateral parts 
of tail purplish brown ; throat, breast, belly, and under surface of tail dull 
brownish red ; under surface of feet pale yellowish brown. 
Form, &c. — Head sub triangular, the anterior half tapered to the nose, 
which is slightly rounded or obtuse, its upper surface slightly convex, its 
sides anteriorly perpendicular, posteriorly convex and bulged. Neck con- 
siderably narrower than the hind-head with the skin covering it loose, and 
forming a large longitudinal fold on each side, extending from the angle of 
the jaws nearly to the fore-leg. Body subovate and depressed. Tail thick 
at the base and depressed, towards the point cylindrical and tapering. The 
plates covering the upper surface of the head smooth, and with well-defineu 
edges, the form of each represented in Plate XXX. Fig. 6 , ; labial scales 
of upper jaw eight, of lower jaw six, exclusive of the rostral and mental 
plates ; angles of mouth margined with minute almost granular scales. 
Scales of the temples rather large and in vertical rows, two or three in each 
row, and the lower one of the hindermost row is formed differently to the rest, 
being somewhat tubercular, and projected outwards and backwards over the 
external ear, (vide Plate XXX. fig. 6 a.) Scales of the back large, quadran- 
gular, strongly carinated and disposed in transverse rows, generally ten 
in each row, the keels forming continuous delicate ridges ; the lateral and 
