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with small smooth irregular scales ; in macrolepis, tail with imbricate 
scales on the upper surface, much smaller than on the lower ; and in Smith’s 
description the scales on the under surface of the tail are larger than those 
on the upper surface ; and others as given in the preceding key. We 
have a series of about a dozen specimens of a Homopholis from the Zout- 
pansberg and Barberton Districts. These exhibit great variation in respect 
to the number and size of nasal and internasal scutes. 
Usually there are two comparatively large anterior nasals, the ventral 
one considerably the larger, but sometimes these are fused together ; 
there may be one, two, three, four, or even more internasals, and there 
are three or four posterior nasals ; the arrangement on one side is often 
not quite the same as on the other side. In large specimens the upper 
margin of the rostral is rounded, and the rostral may best be described 
as subquadrangular, but in younger individuals the rostral is often six- 
sided. This is a character of no specific importance. 
As regards the granulation of the head, in most of our specimens the 
granules on the snout are appreciably larger than those on the back of the 
head, and this is the case to a greater or less extent in all the specimens 
I have seen of this genus. 
On comparing our specimens with the co-type of macrolepis (in the 
South African Museum), and with specimens kindly lent me by the 
authorities of the Natal Government Museum and the Khodesian Museum 
I have not been able to resolve this long series into two species, and am 
provisionally referring all to wahlbergi. The question of the validity of 
macrolepis cannot be absolutely decided until the types of the supposed 
two species can be compared with a series of specimens. Larger specimens 
of Homopholis sometimes have a pair of broad black dorso-lateral bands ; 
this appears to be nothing more than a colour variation. 
4. Pachydactylus fasciatus Boul. — The specimen in the South African 
Museum labelled as the co-type of this species has on most of the digits 
five or six subdigital lamellae, and on the median toe there are only seven ; 
the original description cites nine lamellae under the dilated part of the 
median toes. In other respects this specimen agrees with the description 
of the species. 
Pachydactylus capensis Smith. — This species is common in the Pretoria 
district. Young and half-grown individuals show considerable variation 
in the degree of keeling of the dorsal tubercles, but in all adult specimens 
that I have seen the dorsal tubercles are strongly keeled, and the scales 
on the snout, and the larger scales on the hinder part of the head, are also 
definitely keeled. 
In adult specimens the naso-rostrals are in contact, but in young and 
half-grown individuals they are sometimes separated by granules ; in 
no case does the first labial enter the nostril. Our largest specimen 
measures 57 mm. from snout to vent. 
Pachydactylus weberi Boux. — This species I have not seen. It should 
be easy to distinguish from P. capensis by the character of the first labial. 
The colour pattern is of the same type as in P. fasciatus Boul., the thin 
stripes of weberi representing the darker borders of the broad bands of 
fasciatus. 
