large infra-orbital plate, fire, behind it four, all small and unlike those in
front; plates of lower lip, not including that of chin, six; the disc of the
lower eyelid consists of two pellucid plates. Ear-opening ovate, with the
membrarm tympani visible close to its orifice. Scales of back and sides small,
subquadrangular, and disposed in regular transverse rows, slightly bending
at the centre of the back; scales of the under surface of the neck small,
subovate, and imbricate ; antepectoral fold slender, and with ten small
quadrangular plates, the centre one much the largest, those at the extremities
very small. Pectoral plates small, quadrangular, and arranged in broken
rows, those of belly larger, quadrangular, and ten in the longest rows. Pre-
anal plates about twelve in number, three large in the last row, and a very
small one at each extremity; femoral pores fourteen. Scales of upper and
lateral parts of tail slightly carinated, of under parts smooth. When the
fore-leg is placed along the side.of the neck, the longest toe reaches to the
point of the nose, and when the hinder leg is stretched along the side, the
longest toe reaches to the external ear.
Length from the tip of the nose to the anus 1 | inch, of the tail 3i inches.
Inhabits the interior of Southern Africa towards the tropic of Capricorn. The only two species
to which it bears, from certain details in its colouring, some faint resemblance, are certain
varieties of E . Knoxii and lineo-ocellata. Its having a transparent disc to the lower
eyelid, forms a character which at once bespeaks it as different from the first, and having flat
instead of carinated scales, establishes it as different from the latter.
R e p t il ia ,— P l a t e XLV1I. F ig- H
E supeme flavo-grisea earneo-tincta, dorso lateribusquc maculis parvis fascusque hrunneo-rufis variegahs,
s^am is dollihus parvis suhovnlibus in seriebns trnnsversis dispositrs; scabs pre-anahbus nume-
rosis r scutis ventralibus in ordine singulo onto vo dcoim ; poris femorahhus l l o r -
Longitudo e nasi apice ad anum 2 unc.; caud®
C o l o u r .—The upper parts of the head, the back, the sides superiorly, and
the outer surface of the extremities, light broccoli-brown, brightened with
flesh-red, and the back and sides variegated with small brownish red spots,
and broken brownish red bands. The spots are arranged m two rows along
the centre of the back and upper surface of the-tail near to its base, many of
them being partly brownish red, partly pure white. The bands are tw°’ °"°
on each side, commencing behind each ear-opening, and terminating at the
base of the hinder leg, portions of these bands consist of freckles, otller Portions
of somewhat circular rings, or quadrangular links, either separat
connected ; the outer surface of the hinder extremities towards body with a
few minute brownish red spots. The sides of the head and the under
surface of the neck, body, and tail, dead-white. . .. ,
F orm &c.-Figure slender, tail much lengthened, and very delicate towards
the point; head slender and lengthened, posteriorly of equal width, anterior
to eyes tapered; the nose narrow and slightly rounded; the sides of head,
anterior to eyes, vertical, posterior to eyes, slightly convex. Nasal plates
separated by the intervention of a small quadrangular plate ; naso-rostral
rhomboidal, the anterior angle rather lengthened, and more acute than either
of the other three; fronto-nasal contiguous; frontal moderately long,
broadest before, and both its anterior and posterior edges semicircular; frontoparietal
plates contiguous; parietals subcircular; interparietal large, fivesided
the two anterior sides meeting anteriorly, and forming an acute angle
occipital plate small, and placed immediately behind the interparietal; pal-
Tvphral nlates. transversely, subovate, and anteriorly, posteriorly, and exte