TARENTOLA CAPENSIS. — Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate L. Fig 2. 
T. superne griseo-purpura carneo-tincta et parce maculis parvis nigris albisque variegata ; squamis partim 
parvis tenuibusque, partim magnis ovatis, et convexis ; capite ovato ; pupilla verticali ; digitis sine 
unguibus ; cauda cylindracea . 
Colour. — Head and body intermediate between broccoli-brown and 
flesh-red, the lower parts of the sides and the belly tinted with ochre- 
yellow, and the head, back, and sides freckled with white and liver-brown 
spots, the white ones very small, the others rather larger, a narrow liver- 
brown stripe before and behind the eye. Tail pale lavender-purple glossed 
with flesh-red and speckled, thinly with liver-brown spots rather larger 
than those on the body. Extremities the colour of the body, only with a 
greater proportion of the flesh-red, the spots chiefly of the white sort. Eyes 
deep orange, coloured brown. 
Form, &c. — Head subovate and rather long; its greatest breadth, at the 
temples, rather wider than the neck ; sides of head slightly convex ; nose 
narrow and rounded, the nostrils situated close to its apex, nearly conti- 
guous, and each opening margined by three rather raised scales. Meatus 
auditorius externus rather small, ovate, and placed obliquely about two 
lines behind the angle of the mouth. Body semicylindrical, the belly 
flattened. Extremities rather slender, moderately long, and each with five 
short unarmed toes, the latter towards the points thin, flat, and considerably 
broader than towards the base, each beneath immediately behind apex 
with five or six transverse soft ridges, the last rather the shortest, the under 
surface between those rugae and the origin of the toes covered with 
small scales arranged in transverse rows ; the upper surface of each toe 
close to its point with a large flat scale like the nail of the human finger : 
scales covering the head and tail of two kinds, the one kind rather large, 
conical or oval, and curved, the other kind very small and granular. On 
