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II. No membrane on the side of the body; tail 

 depressed; digits free. 



a. The width of the head equals twice the distance 

 from the end of the snout to the orbit ; throat 

 covered with small flat granules ; each annulus 



of the tail with 5 — 6 rows of scales above, - <?«=k* 



3 beneath 5. C7. verticillaUis p. 56. 



b. The width of the head equals less than twice 

 the distance from the end of the snout to 

 the orbit ; throat minutely granulate ; each 



annulus of the tail with 8 — 11 rows of Sw>fc|W 



scales above 6. 6". stentor p. 57. 



I. Gecko vittatus Houttuyn. 



Gekko vitlatus^ Houttuyn, Verb. Genootsch. Vlissingen IX 1782, p. 325. 

 Gecko viitatus^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 185 (s. syn.). 



Head large, oviform ; snout longer than the distance between 



the eye and the ear-opening, about one 

 time and two thirds the diameter of the 

 orbit; forehead concave, ear-opening 

 oval, slightly oblique, its greatest dia- 

 meter half that of the orbit. Head 

 covered with rather large granules, 

 largest on the snout. Rostral very large, 

 twice as broad as high ; nostril bordered 

 by the rostral, the first labial and three 

 nasals (fig. 33^). Twelve to sixteen 

 upper and ten to fourteen lower labials; 

 mental small, triangular, no chin-shields, 

 the chin covered with polygonal scales. 

 Body long and slender; back with very 

 small juxtaposed granules, intermixed 

 with slightly enlarged smooth tubercles; 

 throat granular with enlarged tubercles. 

 Ventral scales rather large, imbricate. 

 Male with 14 — 58 femoral pores in an 

 angular series. Tail cylindrical, depress- 

 ed, annulate, covered above with very 

 small flat granular scales, intermixed 

 with round flat tubercles, below with 

 larger scales; each annulus is composed of 12 — 14 rows of 



Fig- 33- Nostrils with sur- 

 rounding shields. 

 a. Gecko verticillatus Laur. ; 

 h. G. stentor (Cant.); 

 c. G. monarchus (D. B.); 

 </. G. vittatus Houtt. 



