114 GECKONID^. 



Cosymbotus, lazing. I, c. p. 104. 



Mierodactylus, Fitzing, I. c. 



Onycliopus, Fitzing. I. c. 



Tachybates, Fitzing. I. c, p. 105. 



Pnoepus, Fitzing. I. c. 



Velemesia, Gray, Cat. p. 166. 



Doryura, Gray, I. c. 



Platyurus, Grag, I. c. p. 157. ' 



Leiurus, Gray. I. c. 



Nycteridium, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 111. 



Digits free or more or less webbed, dilated, interiorly with two 

 rows of lamellae ; all the digits provided with slender distal clawed 

 joints angularly bent and rising from within the extremity of the 

 dilated portion. Dorsal lepidosis uniform or heterogeneous. PupU 

 vertical. Males with prceanal or femoral pores. 



Southern Europe ; Southern Asia ; Africa ; Tropical America ; 

 Polynesia. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Digits quite free. 



A. Back with uniform flat subim- 



bricate scales 1. homceolepis, p. 117. 



B. Free distal joints of aU the digits remarkably short. 



3 lameUse* under the inner, and 4 or 



5 under the median toe ; dorsal scales 



uniformly granular 2. bouvieri, p. 118. 



5 or 6 lamellae under the inner, and 8 



or 9 under the median toe; dorsal 



granules intermixed with small round 



keeled tubercles 3. reticidatus, p. 118. 



5 lamellae under the inner, and 9 under 



the median tx)e ; dorsal tubercles oval, 



subtrihedral, strongly keeled 4. gracilis, p. 119. 



C. Free distal joints of digits long. 



1. Dorsal tubercles, if present, small, smooth, conical, or 

 very feebly keeled. 



a. Less than 8 lameUae under the inner toe. 



a. Tail with rows of enlarged tubercles. 



Inner digit very short, with sessile claw ; 



no tubercles on hinder part of head . . 5. frenattis, p. 120. 

 Dorsal tubercles small, convex or very 



feebly keeled ; 5 or 6 lamellae under 



the inner, and 7 to 9 under the median 



* The infrndigitnl Ininollfr arc counted longitudinally, those which are 

 divided on the median iine being reckoned as one. 



