GECKOTID^. 



OECKOTID.E. 



the clui Pkolitbtti. The sub-tribe Atcalabotit, according to him, 

 embraces the Igwutida as weU as Gecko*. 



M. Latreille (1801-1825) seems to hare adopted the views and 

 description* of Lac!pede in the first instance, and not to have gone much 

 beyond a change of nomenclature in the last work published by him. 



M. Kitzinger (1826) make* his Ascalabotoids consist of the genera 

 Samdntt, Uroplattu, Ptyodaelyltu, /lemidacty'.iu, Tkecadactylut, Plycho- 

 :fion, Platydactyliu, Atcttlabota, Satodactylui, and PhyUunu. 



Dr. J. E. Gray <182T-1834) arrange* the following genera under the 

 family Gtckotida : Unudadyltu, Platydactyltu, Gecko, Ptcropletira, 

 Tkteadaetfltu, Plyodoetylta, Pkyllunu, Eublrpharit, Cyrtodactylui, 

 PkyHadadylnt, Diplodactytut, and Gthyra. 



Wagler (1830), under the family name of Platyglotti, make^ the 

 Gectvtida consist of the following genera -.Plyduaoon (Kuhl), 

 CVD*nnu (Wagler t'roplatiu of Dumdril in part), JUiacoeua (Wagler 

 one of L>uai5rU' Unptati), Thectuiactyltu (Cuvier), Platydaclylia 

 (Cuvier), Anaploput (Wagler), Uemidaetyliu (Cuvier), Plyrxl 

 (< 'uvier>, Splutnodaetyliu (Cuvier), AKolabotei (Lichtenstein), Eulle- 

 jAarit (Gray), Qonyodactylut (Kuhl), and Gymxodactylut (Spiz). 



Dr. Cocteau (1835) arranges the Geckos into six divisions: 

 1, Plalyda&yltu, containing five subdivisions, represented in part by 

 Anoplopiu of Wagler, Pkelnma (Cocteau), Pacfiydaelyltu (Wiogmann), 

 PlythotStn (Kuhl), and Pleropltum (Gray), with others resting princi- 

 pally upon the absence or presence of pores before the cloaca, and 

 the development of the claws ; 2, those Geckos which correspond to 

 Thecadaclylu* of Cuvier ; 3, J/emidactyitu ; 4, comprehending Plyo- 

 dactylut (ifroplattu, Diimc'ril; Hhncotua, Wagler; Cramrtu, Wagler); 

 5, Splurriodactyliu, comprehending Diptodaciyl\u (Gray) and Pkylto- 

 daetylui (Gray) ; 6, Sltnodactylut (EMephari*, Gonyodactylut, Oymno- 

 tl'ir/yliu, Cyrtodactyliu, Prittunu, PkyUurtu). 



M. de Blainville (' Nouvelles Annales du Mus<5um,' April, 1836) 

 places the family of Geckos at the head of the family of Saurophians. 

 The species forming the genus /'Inti/tlacly'ia of Cuvier he designates 

 as Geckos ; those ranging under I/emidactylui as Demi-Geckos ; the 

 Ptyodactyli as Tiers-Geckos ; the Stenodaclyli as Quart-Geckos ; and 

 the Oymiutdac'.yli as Sub-Geckos. 



The following cuts will convey an idea of tin form of some of the 

 GeckoliJte : 



I'lntydartyttu honialocephalul (Plj/choioon, Kuhl ; Fttropttura, Cray). 



1, rialyilarlylut Sryencllrniil. (Dum<?r!l.) 

 1, a, the underside of one of it* ton. 



