LEPIDODACTYLUS. 



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Ilomidactylus peronii, Duin. ^- Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii, p. o5i\ pi. xxx, 



fig. 1 ; Kelaart, Prodr. p. 187. 

 Peripia peronii, G'dnth. Itept. B. I. p. 110 ; Thcoh. C<it. p. 70, 

 Gecko pardus, Tijtlvr, J. A. S. B. xxxiii, 1804, p. 547. 

 ? Gecko liarrietti, Tijtlcr, I. c. p. 548. 

 Gelijra luutilata, Boidcn(j. Cat. Liz. i, p. 148. 



Fig. 28. — Foot of Gchjra matilata, lower surface, aud side view of toe. 



Head longer than broad ; snout longer than distance between 

 eye and ear-opening, about Ig the diameter of the orbit ; forehead 

 with a median groove ; ear-opening moderately large, suboval. 

 Body and limbs moderately elongate, depressed ; a fold of the skin 

 bordering the hind limb posteriorly. Digits short, more or less 

 webbed at the base ; the inlerior lamella? angular, divided by a 

 median groove. Upper surface and throat covered with small 

 granular scales, largest and flat on the back. Abdominal scales 

 moderate. Rostral quadrangular, broader than deep, with a median 

 cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, 

 and three nasals, the upper much the largest and generally in 

 contact with its fellow ; 8 or 9 upper and G or 7 lower labials ; 

 mental moderately large, pentagonal ; chin-shields 3 pairs, inner 

 very large, elongate, outer small, frequently broken up into small 

 scales. Femoral pores in a doubly curved line, angular in the 

 middle, 14 to J 9 on each side. Tail depressed, normally with a 

 sharpish, minutely serrated lateral edge ; its upper surface covered 

 with very small flat scales, its lower surface generally with a median 

 series of lai-ge transversely dilated scales. Greyish or reddish 

 brown above, unifomn or dotted or variegated with darker; lower 

 surfaces uniform whitish. 



Trom snout to vent 12*2.3 inches ; tail 2"25. 



Hah. Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, New 

 Guinea, Mascarenes and Seychelles, Western Mexico. 



Genus LEPIDODACTYLUS, 



Fitzinger, Syst. Rept. p. 98, 1843. 



Digits more or less dilated, free or with a rudiment of web, 

 beneath with transverse lamelhie divided by a median groove, with 

 very short compressed distal clawed joint rising from the extremity 

 of the digit ; inner digit clawless. Body covered above with 



