330 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE ASD PRODUCTIONS. 



It lays about ciglit liard-sholled white eggs as big as a musket-ball, cementing 

 them to trees, rocUs, or secluded buildings. Its cry is ' touk tay,' several times 

 repeated, and ending in a long-drawn-out 'diminuendo' guttural rumble. The 

 'touk tay' of the Burmans, notwithstanding tlie persecution it sutfers from the lower 

 orders of Europeans, is an interesting and really useful animal, from the number of 

 insects it consumes. It does not confine itself to insects, but will eat young rats ; 

 and Dr. Mason has seen it devour the smaller species of house lizard. I have 

 myself seen it seize on the wing a bat as it flew round the room, and devour it. 



G. STENTOE, Cantor. 



Tail with a double row of enlarged subcaudal plates. Colour brown, with some 

 dark markings. Grows to fourteen inches. luliabits Akyab, Burma, the Andamans, 

 the Malayan Peninsula. The voice of this species is a ' tuk-tuk-tuk ' several times 

 repeated. 



Pttchozoon, Kuhl. 



Skin of sides expanded into a longitudinal flap. 



P. HOMALOCEPn.iLrii, Creveldt. 



A flap or expansion of skin runs along the sides of the neck and body, and the 

 tail has a simiUir fringed border, scalloped. Prevailing colour some tint of olive 

 with numerous markings. Grows to seven inches. Ranges ii'om Arakan to the 

 Malayan Peninsula. The Nicobars. 



Phelsuma, Gray. 



Claws none. Pupil round. 



P. Andamaxense, Blyth. 



Claws none. Colour of the live animal emerald green above, yellow below. 

 Grows to six inches. This is a diurnal and arboreal gecko, with considerable 

 power of changing its hues. 



Inhabits the Andamans. 



b. Adhesile plates of feet dieided. 

 Hemidactylus, Cuvier. 



Fingers and toes dilated, ovate, clawed, 5 on each limb. Pupil vertical. 

 H. MACULATUs, Dum. et Bib. 



Pemoral pores 20 to 28, in an interrupted line. Grows to five and a half inches 

 (usually smaller). Back with numerous trihedral tubercles. A larger form, with 

 femoral pores, 32 to 36, in a nearly continuous line, and growing to nine and a half 

 inches, has been separated in Ceylon, as M. Fieresi, Kelaart. 



India, Burma, and the Andamans. 



H. CocTEAUi, Dum. et Bib. 



Femoral pores 6 or 8 on each thigh, widely separated in the pubic region. Back 

 granular with a few tubercles in the sacral region. Grows to 9 inches, but is usually 

 smaller. 



Inhabits Northern India and Burma. 



H. FEENATUS, Schl. 



Femoral pores 27 to 35, in an uninterrupted line. Baik granular, with scattered 

 tubercles. Thumb very small. Grows to 5A inclics. 



Ilanges over the whole of India, its Islands, Burma, the Andamans and Nicobars, 

 and the Malayan Peninsula and islands. 



H. MoKTONi, Theobald. 



Resembles the last, but has the thumb well developed. A single female only 

 taken at Rangoon. It approaches II. Lesehenuidlii closely. 



These animals [Ilemidadijlus) are the common house Ueckos of warm regions, 



