290 SAURIA. 



Fig. 3, its profile; and, fig. 4, an under view of the same region. 

 Fig. 5, the left hand, from above; fig. 6, the same, from beneath. 

 Fig. 7, a group of dorsal scales. 

 Fig. 8, a group of abdominal scales. 

 Figs. 2-8, are somewhat magnified. 



GENUS GEKKO, LAUR. 



GEN. CHAR. Pupil vertical. Back scaly, with scattered larger tuber- 

 cles. Femoral pores, but no preanal ones. Tail subquadrangular. 

 Fingers and toes free, unequal, dilated towards their extremity, pro- 

 tected beneath with continuous, transverse plates ; the last joint short, 

 compressed, inflexed, clawed. Thumbs without the last joint, hence 

 clawless. 



SYN. Gekko, LAUR. Synops. Kept. 1768, 43. MERR. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, 

 39. 



Gecko, BAUD. Hist. nat. Kept. IV, 1802, 105. OPPEL, Kept. Prodr. 1811, 23. 

 Cuv. Regn. Anim. II, 1817, 44. GRAY, Catal. Lizz. Brit. Mus. 1845, 160. 



OBSERV. This genus corresponds, to a certain degree, to the 

 Division B, " Heterolepidotes fissipedes, Tetronyx" which Messrs. 

 Dumril & Bibron have established in their genus Platydadylus^ 



1. GEKKO INDICUS, Grd. 

 (Plate XVI, figs. 9-16.) 



SPEC. CHAR. Longitudinal rows of large and distant tubercles on the 

 back, with imbricated, quadrangular, and smooth scales. A series 

 of hexagonal, large gular shields in front, under the lower labials. 

 Color greyish-blue, spotted with orange-red. 



SYN. Salamandra indica, BONT. in Piso: Ind. utr. re nat. et med. 17 . . , 57. 

 Gekko ctylonicus, SEBA, Thes. Nat. I, 1734, 170. Tab. CVIII, fig. 1-9. 

 Lacerta gecko, LINN. Mus. Adolph. Fred. I, 1754, 46; &, Syst. Nat. I, ed. XII", 1766, 

 365. GM. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. XIII", 1788, 1068. SHAW, Gen. Zool. Ill, 1802, 264. 



PI. LXXVII. 



L. yuttata, HERMANN, Obs. Zool. Posth. 1804, 156. 

 Gekko teres, LAUR. Synops. Kept. 1768, 44. 



