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This genus is therefore very like Homonota of South America and 
Stenodactylus of Asia and North Africa, but is distinct from both through 
the nature of the infradigital scales. 
N. f estiva , sp. nov. (pi. XIV, fig. 1). 
Description : head, body, and tail depressed : head rather long (in the 
figure it appears too short owing to foreshortening) : limbs well developed : 
tail rather long and tapering. Snout rather pointed, much longer than 
the diameter of the eye which is small : ear-opening small, more or less 
rotund, situated the same distance from the eye as the tip of the snout. 
Forehead between the eyes slightly concave. The rostral which is twice 
as broad as deep is cleft above. The nostril is pierced between two small 
nasal granules, naso-rostral, rostral, and the first labial. The naso-rostrals 
may or may not be separated. The symphysial as deep or not quite as 
deep as the adjoining labials, and narrower : it is rather more than twice 
as deep as broad. Labials ^f, usually |. The scales on the snout are 
larger than those on the back, and are about twice the size as those on 
the back of the head : the scales on the belly are rather more than twice 
as large as those on the back. The tail above has the scales about 
twice the size of those on the back, imbricate : each segment of the tail, 
indicated only by the dark cross bars, has about ten transverse series of 
scales : below the scales are larger and are arranged in irregular 
longitudinal series. 
The colour is variable, but the markings are constant. Above, 
usually dark brown, sometimes tinged with violet, or a lighter chestnut- 
brown (in young olive-brown), with thin black zigzag transverse stripes : 
behind, in the corners of these vermiculations are white spots : the stripes 
are continued on the tail which is generally dirty yellow in colour. 
Below, light grey or dirty white. 
18 examples at Narudas Siid, in crevices of rocks in the river bed 
at the foot of the Great Karas Mountains. 
The specific name has reference to a characteristic habit: Dr. H.H. W. 
Pearson noticing this species at Narudas Slid described it to Mr. Methuen 
as “a ridiculous little beast sitting on a rock and waving its yellow tail in 
the air.” 
It is exceedingly swift in its movements. 
Type, T. M. Cat. Rept. No. 3038, in the Transvaal Museum. 3031-3048. 
Genus Lygodactylus, Gray. 
Bouleng., B. M. Cat. I, p. 158. 
L. capensis, Smith. 
Hemidactylus capensis , Smith, 111. Rept., PI. LXXV, fig. 3. 
L. capensis , Bouleng., 1. c., p. 160. 
6 examples all taken on trees: 3049, 3050, from Wasserfall: 3051-3053, 
Narudas Siid : 3054, from Quibis. No. 3054 was found with its nest 
containing two eggs under the bark of an Acacia tree. 
Genus Pachydactylus, Wiegm. 
Paeliydactylus , Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 19: Boufing., B. M. Cat. I, p. 200: and Ann. S. A. 
Mus. V, 1910, p. 456, and 459. 
Elasmodactylus, Bouleng., P. Z. S. 1894, p. 727. 
According to the earlier descriptions relating to Pachydactylus and 
Elasmodactylus these two genera were separable through the absence of a 
