CAITIA AFRICANA.— Gray. 
Reptilia. — Plate 76. — Fig. 1. — 1 a, b, & c. 
C. superne auranteo-brunnea, subtus griseo -flava, plica laterali versus caput pallide flava, lineis 
brunnis verticalibus variegata ; extremitatibus anterioribus posterioribusque parvissimis, spuriis, 
et indivisis. 
Longititdo e nasi apice ad anum 2 unc. 9 lin. ; caudse 9 unc. 6 lin. 
Caitia Africana, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i, page 389. 
Colour. — Head, back, and tail, superiorly light reddish brown, or reddish 
brown tinted with hair-brown ; sides and under parts wine-yellow, the former 
tinged with oil-green ; the lateral fold of skin, towards the head, the side 
of the body directly above that portion of the fold, together with the upper 
lip, pale lemon-yellow, barred with vertical, short, deep, reddish brown 
stripes. 
Form, &c. — Head quadrangular, and tapered towards the nose, which is 
narrow and rounded ; sides of the head perpendicular. Body and tail 
slender, almost cylindrical, the whole of the former and the basal third of 
the latter nearly of equal thickness ; the other two-thirds of the tail tapered 
to the point, which is slender and acute. Along each side of the body 
a lateral fold of skin, the free edge directed upwards; it commences at the 
hinder extremity of the lower jaw, and terminates at the base of the posterior 
rudimentary extremity. Rostral plate triangular, its apex between the 
nasal plates ; the latter plates are narrow and placed transversely, the outer 
extremity widest, the inner extremity subacute, and in contact with its 
fellow of the opposite side. Naso-rostral plate large, five-sided, the hinder 
side notched to lodge the apex of the frontal plate ; fronto-nasal plates 
wanting. Frontal plate rather large, six-sided, before and behind pointed ; 
palpebral plates three on each side, the middle one largest ; parietal plates 
large, anteriorly irregularly rounded, posteriorly truncated ; interparietal plate 
narrow, sub-rhomboidal; frenal plates rather large, subquadrangular, narrowest 
