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The skin is somewhat loose, forming a slight longitudinal fold on each 

 side of the body, and on the anterior margin of the thigh. The anus is 

 covered by a transversal fold, reaching across from the one thigh to 

 the other. There are no femoral pores. The tail is tapering, much 

 depressed, convex on the upper surface, flat beneath, sharp at the sides. 

 Near the root, about f of an inch distant from the anus, the skin forms 

 an annular fold, completely encircling that part of the tail. The colour 

 slightly differs from that of the Otaheite individuals. The upper partes 

 and the lower surface of the tail from the annular fold are of a buff or 

 pale dust colour, so closely and minutely dotted with reddish brown, 

 that the parts have a pale greyish brown appearance. On the loins and 

 between the shoulders are a few distant blackish spots, besides in the 

 latter place appear two short lateral lines, and an indistinct band pro- 

 ceeds from the nostril across the eye to the shoulder. The throat, 

 inner side of the limbs, abdomen and the lower surface of the root of 

 the tail to the annular fold are buff-coloured. The pupil is black, 

 vertical, dentilated, the iris silvery, dotted with reddish brown. 



Length of the head Of inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk \\ 



Ditto ditto tail If 



Entire length 3^ inch. 



Platydactylus gecko, (Linne.) 



Syn. — Salamandra indica, Bontius. 



Gekko ceilonicus, Seba. 



Lacerta canda tereti mediocri, Linne' mus, Adolph. 



Lacerta gecko, Linne. 



Gekko teres, \ y . 



Gekko verticillatus, / 



Salamandre, ou Gecko de Linneus, Knorr. 



Stellio gecko, Schneider 



Common Gecko, Shaw. 



Gecko guttatus, Daudin, apud Gray. 



Lacerta guttata, Hermann. 



„ , ,^ , f Gray. Zool. Journ. 



Gecko verus, Merrem, apud < p *' f a t a i 



Gecko annulatus, Kuhl 



Gecko a gouttelettes, Cuvier 



Platvdactvlus guttatus, Cuv. apud Guerin, Dtim. and Bibr. 



"To'ke"' of the Malays.* 



* The Malays denominate the family of Geckotidm : Gekko, Kiko, Gdgo, Gokc, 

 evidently Onomatopoeias, in imitation of the cry of these lizards. 



