EUPREPES PUN CT ATISSIMU S. 
fine and much curved. Nostrils small, circular, and situated in the rostral 
canthus close to the nose, in the hinder part of the nasal plate, — the opening 
directed backwards and outwards. Eyes rather small, eyelids granular, the 
lower lid with a central semi-transparent disc. External ear opening nearly 
circular, in a line with the angle of the mouth, and its anterior edge fringed 
with two or three small pointed projecting scales. Rostral plate subtri- 
angular, its apex rounded ; supra-nasal plates narrow, broadest anteriorly 
where they are in contact; naso-rostral plate large and subrhomboidal ; 
fronto-nasal plates quadrangular and not in contact. Frontal plxte sub- 
rhomboidal, anteriorly slightly truncated, the two hinder sides prolonged and 
terminate in a narrow point ; fronto-parietal plates small, quadrangular, and 
anteriorly in contact. Parietal plates large, somewhat four sided, the 
posterior side longest ; inter-parietal plate four sided, the two sides in front very 
short, the others long ; each parietal plate margined behind by a long, narrow, 
transverse plate. Palpebral plates four; the second, reckoning from behind 
much the largest; between palpebral plates and upper eyelid a row of 
five narrow plates, the second much the longest. Freno-nasal plate small, 
subtriangular ; frenal plates two, subquadrangular. Plates of upper lip, 
exclusive of rostral, seven ; of lower lip, exclusive of mental, seven or eight ; 
post-mental plate entire and of the same size as mental. Scales of ihe back, 
sides, and outer surface of extremities six sided, rather longest transversely, 
the anterior and posterior sides shortest, each scale with three strong keels. 
Scales of the under parts of the head, body, and inner surface of the extremi- 
ties also six sided, but without keels. Scales of the upper and under surface 
of the tail larger than those of the body, the former with five rather slight 
keels, the latter smooth. Length of an adult specimen, from nose to base of 
tail 3 inches, of tail 3J inches. 
This lizard is found in the north-eastern districts of the Cape Colony, and also to the 
north and east of these districts, and is often associated with Euprepes Smith'd. On 
observing the two so frequently, in numbers, in the same localities, I was at first disposed 
to consider the differences of colour as only sexual : however, a close examination soon 
satisfied me they were distinct species. 
A reference to the upper surface of the tail, near its base, affords a ready means of dis- 
tinguishing the one species from the other. In Euprepes Smithii, the scales are of the same size 
and figure as those of the back ; in E. punctatissimus again, they are, measured transversely, 
nearly twice the width of those of the back ; in the other direction they are as narrow, if not 
narrower, than those of the back. 
