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GECKONID^. 



Family GECKONID^. 



Skull without postorbital or postfronto-squamosal arch ; no 

 squamosal ; prsemaxillary single ; nasals distinct ; parietals dis- 

 tinct ; frontals completely surrounding the olfactory lobes of 

 the brain ; a fibro-cartilaginous ioterorbital septum ; a columella 



A 



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B C 



Fig. 8. — Skull of Geclv vcrticillatus. 

 A. Side view. B. Upper view. 0. Lower view. 



cranii ; mandible containing only five bones, the angular and 

 articular having coalesced. Teeth small, numerous, with cylin- 

 drical shaft ankylosed to the inner edge of the jaws (Pleurodont 



