The back between the light streaks is sometimes blackish, which shade is continued as a stripe to the base of the tail. On the posterior back and tail base traces of a light vertebral streak are sometimes present in the young. The upper lip is bluish green. The tail is uniform brownish or reddish brown in the young, sometimes with a dorsal series of black spots. The lower parts of body are coloured greenish white in front and salmon-pink behind. "P. fordii" is distributed in westerns parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (Fernando Po Island), Gabon and south to Democratic Republic of Congo (western Bas-Congo) from almost sea level up to altitude in Cameroon. It is a diurnal, semiarboreal forest species that can be found in flimsy, grassy and lower vegetation often near permanent streams. The West African striped lizard presumably lays eggs. The diet of "P. fordii" consists of insects and other arthropods.