GERRHOSAURUS SUBTESSELLATUS. 
parietal or inter-parietal plates (Vide Plate XLII. Fig. 5.) Temporal plates 
six the hinder-most one the largest. Meatus auditorius externus edged ante- 
riorly by a narrow projecting plate. Scales of body slightly imbricate and 
arranged in transverse rows ; they are quadrangular in form, and in propor- 
tion to the size of the species are larger than in any other species of the genus 
yet descriDed ; they are all quite smooth, and destitute even of the rudiments 
ol a keel. Lateral duplicature well developed. Plates of belly quadran- 
gular, and disposed in transverse rows, eight scales in each, their neatest 
width transversely. Femoral pores eight. Preanal plates three in a row the 
middle one diamond-shaped. Length from nose to base of tail, ] inch 
1 1 lines ; length of tail, 4 inches. 
'o far as 1 know, only a very few specimens of this species have yet been obtained, and the 
only two I myself procured were caught among short grass in the vicinity of a low rocky 
knowl, in Great Namaqualand. ^ 
S “’ hc : 0f * he scste » r *>™ distinguish it ,t „„ce from the 
othe . o the genus. The small depth of the body is also another diagnostic character an, I a 
thud is the great size of the scales, when compared with the size of the Lizard. 
