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Phelsuma, Gray. 



Fingers and toes dilated towards their tips, with a series of 

 undivided pneumatically adhesile plates below. Claws none. 

 Pupil round. Diurnal. 



P. Andamanense, Blyth. 



Gecko chamceleon, Tytler. J. A. S, B., 1864, p. 548. 

 Back finely granular. Sub-caudals enlarged. Femoral pores 28 

 to 32 in a slightly angular line. Colour rich emerald green, 

 above, below, bright yellow. Red marks on head and back. 

 Grows to six inches, of which the tail is half. 

 Inhabits the Andaman Islands. 



This is a remarkable geckoid form, of diurnal and arboreal 

 habits, and distinguished during life by its brilliant colours. 

 According to Tytler it is very changeable, becoming almost black 

 in dark spots, the full sunlight being required to bring out its 

 richest colors. 



Section B, Adhesile plates of feet divided. 



Calodactylus, Beddome. 



" Finofers and toes 5"5, dilated in their whole lensrth with two 

 series of small transverse plates beneath the thumbs, and the 

 first toes ending in a single pair of flat plates, with the claws 

 between them; the other four fingers and toes provided with 

 two pairs of similar plates, one pair terminal and the other pair 

 one-third down the finger or toe, and separated from the termi- 

 nal pair by several rows of the smaller scales. No cutaneous 

 appendage." Mad. Monthly J. Med. Science, 1870, p. 30. 



C. aureus Bed. L. C, p. 31, pi. ii. 

 " Head and back uniformly granular with very small scales, 

 some few of which are very slightly enlarged : scales of the 

 belly small, nearly square, in about 30 transverse series. Eye 

 large, without eyelid. Pupil elliptic erect, nostrils behind each 

 angle of the rostral with two plates between them : fourteen 

 upper labials, last two very small ; thirteen lower ones. Opening 

 of the ear about quarter the size of the eye, not denticulate. 



