A NEW FOSSIL REPTILE. 1001 
proximal row consists of two very large flat bones which meet in 
the middle ina long articulation broken by notches which to- 
gether form a small foramen. One of these bones is the fibulare, 
the other in all probability the fused tibiale and intermedium. 
The distal row consists of five bones, of which the fourth is very 
large and articulates with the two proximal tarsals. The first, 
second, and third distal tarsals are separated from the tibiale 
intermedium by two centralia which form a median row in the 
tarsus. 
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Broomia perplexa. 
Outline drawing of the left hind leg as preserved. X 1. 
The first metatarsal is not exposed; the base of the second is 
seen supported by its tarsal. The third is a slender bone of 
considerable length. The fourth is even longer, being more than 
half as Jong as the fibula. The fifth metatarsal is short, only 
slightly more than half as long as the fourth. In the specimen 
all the metatarsals lie parallel and close up to one another. 
This little animal, as restored in text-fig. 4, is thoroughly 
lizard-like in build and obviously led a lizard-like lite on perfectly 
dry land. It may perhaps, as suggested by its large claws and 
very slender limb, have been to some extent arboreal. 
The little lizard-like animal, almost the whole of whose 
structure is described in the foregoing account, is obviously 
distinct from any known South African form, and as it is the most 
striking new form which I collected in that country, I propose 
