162 REPTILES. 



Dr. a. Smith's Gecko. Gecko Smithii, Gray^ Zool. Mis. 54. 



Black, with minute white-tipped tubercles ; back with cross 

 bands of white spots, the two front bands lunate ; tail with 8 white 

 spots, the front small, next round, the rest oblong, longer towards 

 the tip, last spot subapical ; beneath grey, brown-raarbled ; head 

 grey, occiput with 3 diverging, and the sides of the throat with 2 

 black streaks. 



Inhab. Prince of Wales' Island. Mus. Fort Pitt, Chatham. 



The Streaked Gecko. Gecko vittatus, Houtt. Act. Uliss. 

 ix. 325, t. 2. Latr. Rcpt. ii. 61. Brong. Bull. Soc. Phil. i. t. 6, 

 /. 3. Daucl. Rept. iv. 136. Gmel. S. N. i. 1067. Cuv. R A. ii. 53. 

 Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 331. Stellio bifurcifer, Schneid. Amph. 

 ii. 22. L. zeylonica, Nau. L. striata, Shaw, N. Misc. t. SS. 



Fulvous, with a longitudinal white streak, forked in front ; 

 back with very numerous very granular small rounded tubercles. 

 a. Adult, in spirits. Amboina. From Mr. Brandt's collection. 

 h. Young, in spirits. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by the 



College of Surgeons. 



Lacerta unistriata. Cat. Mus. Col. Surg. n. 209. 



The Double-streaked Gecko. Gecko bivittatus. Platy- 

 dactylus bivittatus, Bum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 334. 



Violet or brown, with 2 dorsal streaks; back covered with small 

 smooth flat scales, scattered with very minute tubercles. 



Inhab. New Guinea. Mus. Paris, 2 specimens. Perhaps a 

 variety of the former. 



22. Amydosaurus. Platydactylus, part, Dum. et Bib. 



Toes free, very unequal, narrow at the base, dilated towards 

 the end, with 5 or 6 angular plates beneath the base, transverse 

 ones at the end, the last joint short, compressed, clawless. Thuml) 

 with the last compressed joint clawless. Scales finely granular, 

 uniform. Sides simple. Tail cylindrical, ? when repro- 

 duced fusiform, covered with square scales. Femoral pores none. 



The Sombre Gecko. Amydosaurus lugubris. Platydacty- 

 lus lugubris, Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 304. 



White, black-spotted; lower rostral triangular; the front chin- 

 scales polygonal, the rest granular. 



Inhab. Otaheite. Mus. Paris. 



23. Gehyra, Gray. Peropus, part, Weigmann, 



Toes free, depressed, oval, much dilated towards the end, with 

 transverse entire scales beneath, last joint compressed, elongated. 

 Thumb dilated, without the elongated compressed last joint, claw- 

 less. Back with small granular scales. Males with preanal pores, 

 females poreless. Tail round, tapering, slightly ringed, covered 

 with equal granular scales, with a series of 6-sided scales beneath. 



