GEKKO INDICUS. 291 



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



Gecko guttatus, DAUD. Hist. nat. Kept. IV, 1802, 122. PI. XLIX. Cuv. Regn. 

 Anim. II, 1817, 46; 2d ed. II, 1829, 53; &, ed. illustr. Kept. 75. 



Gekko veru, MERE. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, 42. 



Geclco vents, GRAY, Zool. Journ. HI, 1827, 223; &, Catal. Lizz. Brit. Mus. 1845, 160. 



G. annulatug, KUHL, Beitr. Zool. u. vergl. Anat. 1820, 132. 



Platydactylus guttatus, DUM. & BIBE. Erpet. gen. Ill, 1836, 328. PI. xxvm, fig. 4. 

 GUER. Iconogr. Regn. Anim. 1834. PI. xm. 



Salamandrt on Gecko de Linneus, KNORR, Delic. Nat. II, 1767. Tab. LVI, fig. 3. 



Gecko d youttelettes, DAUD. ; Cuv. 



OBSERV. This species having been so often described, and so badly 

 illustrated, herpetologists will welcome the accompanying figure, drawn 

 from life in February, 1842. 



After introducing such figures as are given on Plate XVI, any 

 further description becomes superfluous. The large eye, the well- 

 developed auricular aperture, the aspect of the upper surface of the 

 head, the series of large gular shields lining the lower labial plates, 

 the preanal pores, the upper and lower surface of the digits, and the 

 scales of the back and of the belly, are represented as truthfully as art 

 could attain. The inferior surface of the head and that of the tail, 

 alone, are not exhibited in a structural point of view : the former is 

 covered with small, subcircular, or polygonal scales, and the latter, 

 provided with a median series of larger plates. 



As to the coloration, the authors are somewhat at variance. The 

 specimen before us exhibits a greyish-blue ground on the upper surface 

 of the head, body, limbs, and tail, with a few small patches of a deeper 

 blue along the back, and spotted all over with orange-red : the spots 

 on the head uniting occasionally into sinuous lines. The dorsal region 

 is lighter. The tail is semi-annulated with the same tint. The upper 

 surface of the toes is of a light saffron-yellow, transversely barred 

 with orange. The inferior surface of the animal is of a uniform 

 whitish-yellow. 



Loc. From a small island in Balabac Strait, near China Seas, 



Plate XVI, fig. 9, represents Geltko indicm, size of life. 



Fig. 10, is an upper view of the head ; 



Fig. 11, a lower view of the same. 



Fig. 12, the vent, in order to show the preanal pores. 



Fig. 13, upper surface of the second toe ; 



