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 Family Geckotid.^, 



Head broad triangular depressed. Back and sides generally 

 covered by granular or tubercular scales. Belly covered with 

 rhombic imbricate scales. Tongue thick and short, its base 

 attached to the gullet. Eyelids generally rudimentary not 

 connivent. Pupil generally erect. Toes generally adapted for 

 pneumatic adhesion. Femoral or prseanal pores, in the males 

 only, rarely absent. Eggs globular, calcareous. 



Section A. Adhesile plcdes of feet undivided. 

 Gecko, Gray. 



Fingers and toes dilated in their whole length with a series of 

 undivided pneumatically adhesile plates below. Four claws on 

 each foot. Back granular with or without larger tubercles inters- 

 persed. 



G. guttatus, Daud. 



Back covered with small flat granular scales with twelve longi- 

 tudinal rows of large tubercles. Tail without any enlarged 

 subcaudal shields. Preeanal pores from 12 to 32 in a slightly 

 angular series. Colour pale olive gray, slaty over the head, with 

 four or five transverse white bands across the body. Body and 

 limbs red spotted; belly white, red spotted. Longitudinal 

 tubercles of back red, or, when standing on a white band, white. 



Grows to about a foot. 



Inhabits Eastern Bengal, about Dacca. Calcutta (where 

 probably introduced), Khasi Hills, Arakan, Birmah, and Malayan 

 Peninsula, The Andamans, &c., but not peninsular India, or 

 Hindustan Proper, or Ceylon. 



It lays six or eight (or more) very hard shelled white eggs of 

 a globular form and the size of a musket ball, affixing then to 

 trees, rocks, or secluded portions of buildings. When first ex- 

 truded, they are soft, as they are seen to be indented from 

 mutual pressure being closely agglutinated together. Their 

 voice is very loud. A ' touk-tay ' several times repeated, and 

 ending in a drawn out guttural rumble. Their voice is very 



