REPTILIA. 



Cold-blooded vertebrates, which breathe air all through life. 



Order Lacertilia. 



Head, and usually the body also, covered with scales. , Eyelids 

 alw^ays present. Legs usually four. Teeth fixed to the jaw-bone. 



Family Gcclxonidae. 



Scales on the head, the rest of the body soft, with small 

 granules on the back, and small scales on the abdomen. 



Key to the Genera. 



1. Last joint of the toes rising from within the digital 



expansion. Gehyra. 



Last joint of the toes at the end of the digital 



expansion. 2 



2. Toes gradually narrowing. Naultinus. 

 Toes abruptly narrowing. Dactylocuemis. 



Genus Gehyra. 

 Toes strongly dilated, the end-joint free, raised from within 

 the extremity of the dilatation. Inner toes without claws. India, 

 Australia, Polynesia, and Mexico. 



The Oceanic Gecko. 



Gehyra oceanica. 



Above brown, eitber uniform or with lighter and darker markings; 

 below uniform whitish. Length, about 6 in. Moluccas, New Guinea, 

 Polynesia. Specimens have been obtained on Flat Island, Moko Hinou 

 Group, north of the Great Barrier Island. 



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