ONYCHOCEPHALUS CAPENSIS.-Smith. 
Reptilia.— Plate LI. Fig. 3. 
o surme intense pallide ™teo-b.„u«.™ ; cudi M ulo o™tai »b» s » S .», ,»p»b 
O' U eq „ acuto ; labu auperioris scat, ultimo „.g»o-»»bt™,R»ta. 
Cot.oun.-The head, the body, and the tail, superiorly as well “ 
a colour intermediate between pale orange-coloure row ‘ ‘ f , 
the tint rather pale; the colour of the under not qm e so da «-t » 
upper parts, and exhibits a slight blutsh huge. The colour 
darker at the centre than the circumference, farmer below 
lTirwX m st r ^ut!“cO^^ 
plate rather narrow, posteriorly slightly contracted, and _the 
arched and situated exactly the width of the 
of the eyes ; naso-rostral plate broader below a >e rat her irregularly 
it ioins the anterior frontal; preocular plate hroa _ . , j 
shaped, its inferior extremity truncated ; ocular plate pomte , S “ P “'“ J t , 
inferiorly, the eye situated in it immediately behind the > where the 
Dosterior edge of the supraocular joins the preoculai p . , , 
“ the upper lip large and subtriangular, it extends upwards nearly M» 
£h as the middle ofVocular plate; the anterior frontal ^Ij^ er 
parietal plates rather larger than the scales of the body, but nearly the 
same in shape, differing only in being a little longer as 
width- the supraocular plates rather irregular in orm ’ put P LIY lies 
than the body scales, bat in other therm Vid ^ JL JLi 
8-12. Nostrils situated m the suture, hct^cn.hejasa ^ ^ 
one line ; iengrir of the tai, about one and a 
half lines ; diameter of the body one line and a quarter. 
• • f o i+ltprn Africa and is found like the other species of the genus, 
Inhabits the interior of Southern Atnca, 
either in the ground or under stones, &c. 
