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APPENDIX. 
PHYLLODACTYLUS PORPHYREUS, Weigm. Dim. et Bib. Erpet. General, tom. 3, p. 393. 
This species occurs throughout the whole of Southern Africa, and is found in decayed wood, in 
crevices of rocks, and under loose stones. 
PHYLLODACTYLUS LI YE AT US, Gray. Cat. Lizards, British Museum, page 150. 1845. 
Colour, above, rusty pearl-grey, the upper surface of the head and temples variegated with fine 
waved liver-brown lines ; the back and sides with four or six liver-brown stripes, two on the back and one 
or two on each side. In many individuals these stripes are connected by transverse liver-brown lines, 
in others the longitudinal stripes are wanting, the back and sides variegated only with liver-brown bars. 
Tail, above, with longitudinal lines or liver-brown bars, each bar angular, the angle directed backwards. 
Under parts wine-yellow, slightly variegated with livid black points. A dark liver-brown line along 
rostral canthus, from the eye to the nose. Scales of back fiat, nearly circular, and slightly imbricate ; 
hinder edge of rostral plate emarginate. Head rather short and deep. Length from nose to tail, 
1 inch; of tail, 1 inch 4 lines. The scales in this species are larger in proportion than m Phyllodac- 
tylus Porpliyrevs, and more distinctly imbricate, the rostral plate behind is emarginate mstea o 
entire; and the head is shorter and deeper. Occurs in crevices of rocks, and under the bark of decayed 
trees in different parts of the Cape Colony. 
STENODACTYLUS GARRULUS, n. s. 
The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back, the sides, and the tail, pale buff-orange ; 
the back near the neck variegated with waved, narrow, brownish red, transverse lines, the re- 
mainder of the back mottled with small, irregular, brownish red spots; the sides of the body with dull 
brownish red streaks. Tail irregularly spotted brownish red, or partially barred with that colour. 
Throat lemon-yellow; belly and under surface of tail yellowish white. Eyes silvery, with a coppeiy 
gloss. Head large, subovate, short and deep, considerably wider than the neck ; sides of body rather 
protuberant; tail cylindrical, tapered, and pointed, behind anus bulged. Scales of head and body 
small, nearly circular, those of the latter arranged in transverse rows; scales of the upper surface of tai 
rather larger, somewhat pointed behind, and slightly imbricate. Toes, particularly those o in er e , 
long, the fringe on the outer side longest ; claws long, slender, and nearly straight. Slun on t e 
sides of the neck loose, forming slight folds, on the throat superabundant, and dilatable at the will o 
the animal. External ear-opening narrow and oblique, situated lower than the angle of the mouth, and 
about three lines behind it. Nostrils in the centre of three narrow raised plates, at the apex of the nose, 
and only separated from each other by the rostral plate. Length from nose to base of tail, 1 mch J lines , 
of tail, 1 ineh C lines. Inhabits sandy districts in the interior of Southern Africa, is gregarious, an ives 
in small, nearly perpendicular burrows ; it seeks its food probably during the night, at least I have never 
seen more than its head above ground during the day. In the localities in which it occurs many 
individuals may be seen peeping from their hiding-places any time during the day, each uttering . 
sharp sound, somewhat like chick, chick; and the number thus occupied is at times so great, and 
noise so disagreeable as to cause the traveller to change his quarters. 
VARANUS NILOTICUS, Fitz. Dim. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. m. page 476 . Graj Cat. 
Lizards, British Museum, page 11. Lacerto Capensis, Sparman, voyage to the Cape omtor 
Niloticus, Isid. Geoff, work on Egypt, tom. i. page 121, tab. 3, fig. 1- e 8 uan P 
Colonists. 
