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APPENDIX. 
CHAMAESAURA ANGUINE A, ScJm. Hist. Amphib. Natur. Ease. iii. page 210. Bum. et Bib. 
Erpet. Gener. tom. v. page 441. Chalcide Monodactyle, Ouv. Reg. Animal (first edition), tom. n- 
page 57. Monodactylus Anguineus, Merr. Tent. Syst. Ampli. page. 76. 
Inhabits liumid localities, and is found among grass or stones near streams of water, or on the 
sea coast. It progresses with great rapidity, and in the manner of a snake. 
GONGYLUS CAPENSIS, n. s. 
Head four-sided, tapered to the nose. Body long, slender, and slightly depressed. Tail some- 
what four-sided, long, tapered, and pointed. Extremities short and slender, outer toe of each foot very 
short, second rather longer, innermost rather longer than the second, third and fourth much the longest, 
and of the same length ; each toe armed with a short blunt claw. Rostral plate large, and somewhat 
square ; nasal plates narrow, and internally contiguous ; naso-rostral plate large, and transversely ovate. 
Frontal plate bell-shaped, square behind ; interparietal plate large, somewhat heart-shaped ; parietal 
plates long, narrow, and quadrangular; n a so frenal plate very small and subovate; frenal plate large ; 
preocular plate small. Plates of upper lip, exclusive of rostral, 5 ; of lower lip, exclusive of mental plate 
G; submental plates large, the one immediately behind the mental plate single; behind it four on each 
side, edging labial plates. Scales of the back and tail rather large, transversely ovate, or slightly Six- 
sided ; those of the abdomen the same shape, but not quite so lengthened transversely ; nostrils situated 
in a notch in the hinder edge of the rostral plate. External ear-opening minute and circular Lower 
eyelid with a large semi-transparent disc. The upper surface of the head greenish white, freckled with 
pale brownish red ; the back, the sides, and the base of the tail superiorly intermediate between yellowish 
brown and oil-green, and with a coppery gloss ; each scale, anteriorly, narrowly edged with greenish 
white. Sides of the tail liver-brown, slightly specked with white ; under parts of body and tail greenish 
yellow. Length from nose to base of tail, 2 inches ; length of tail not known. The single specimen I 
possess was found on the western coast of Southern Africa, among loose stones at the base of a rocky lull. 
CRYPTOBLEPHARUS WALBERGII, n. s. 
Head four-sided, tapered to the nose ; the latter narrow, and slightly arched. The body sub- 
quadrangular ; the abdomen very flat; the back convex ; the sides vertical. Tail subcylindrical, tapered 
and pointed. Frontal plate small, rhomboidal ; fronto-parietal plate large, triangular, the lander ec ge 
or base notched to lodge the anterior extremity of the interparietal plate; naso-rostral plate single, large, 
somewhat rhomboidal, longest transversely. Nostril small, circular, and situated m nasal plate ; one 
freno-nnsnl and two frenal plates; several small preocular plates; edge of orbit surrounded with a ring 
of minute subgranular scales ; no eyelid. Ear-opening small, in a line with the angle of the mouth. 
Scales of the body and tail large for the size of the lizard, six-sided, greatest length transverse y. 
Extremities very slender, second and third toes of hinder feet much the longest, outermost and fourth 
toes nearly of equal length, the innermost very short; the toes of the fore-feet rather short, tie sccon 
and third rather longer than the outermost. Preanal plates two. Colour ol the uppei pai * m.ume 
diate between orange-coloured brown and olive-green. In some individuals the back and base ^ tail 
are variegated with six narrow umber-brown lines; the sides deep liver-brown, ec D ec a o\e an 
below with a clear white line. The sides of body and base of tail intermediate between hair- 
brown and liver-brown, the colour of the sides divided from that of the back by eintervention 
of a pale sienna-yellow line which originates near the eyebrow, and is lost generally before it 
reaches the tail. Colour of the under parts wine-yellow. Length from nose o ase o ai , me i 
