ACANTHODACTYLUS CAPENSIS.— Smith. 
Reptilia.— Plate XXXIX. a, Male ; b, Female. 
Mas. A. superne flavo-brunneus, lateribus nigro-bmnneis, et macularum albarum seriebus duabus 
et lineisduabus longitudinalibus ejusdem colons variegatis ; partibus infenonbus ochraceis . digitis 
externe dentatis. 
Feu. Superne pallido aurantius, lateribus rubro-aurantiis superne inferneque lined subalbida marginatis ; 
partibus inferioribus ocliraceis, versus latera nigro brunneo-tessellatis. 
Loxoitudo e naso ad basin caudse mas ; 4 unc. 6 lm ; caudee 6 unc. 
Colour, (Male.)— The upper surface of the head, the middle of the back, 
and the upper surface of the tail intermediate between yellowish brown and 
reddish orange, the first irregularly mottled with dashes of umber-brown and 
the back is freckled with small liver-brown dots, and marked with a short line 
of the same colour from centre of hind head. The sides of the body and of the 
tail at its base liver-brown, variegated with two longitudinal white bands, the 
uppermost commencing at the hind head and ending a little way beyond the 
base of the tail ; the lowermost begins below, and behind the eye is broken 
bv the intervention of the meatus auditorius externus, and terminates in front 
of base of hinder leg : over the first of these bands there is a stripe of small 
roundish spots of the colour of the back, only lighter, and between them a 
longitudinal row of round rusty white ones. The sides ol the belly below 
the lowermost white line the same colour as the sides, the remainder of the 
belly, throat, under surface of legs, and tail, pale ochre-yellow. Upper 
surface of extremities liver-brown freely speckled with irregular yellowish 
white spots ; toes transparent yellowish brown above freckled with umber- 
brown Sides of head umber-brown, the lips, a line under the eye, and the 
edoes of some of the scales towards hinder parts of lower jaw straw-yellow. 
Female -The upper surface of the head brownish yellow ; the back and 
centre of 'the tail above intermediate between Dutch and deep reddish 
orano-e ■ the sides of body and tail near its base intermediate between 
orpiment-orange and tile-red, and these two tints are kept separate from each 
other by the ''intervention of a narrow longitudinal whitish band, which 
commences at the hind head and terminates about the commencement of the 
