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distinctly, according to the age of the animal, into 

 divisions or verticillated rings : the whole animal 

 is covered on the upper parts with numerous, dis- 

 tant, round warts or prominences, approaching 

 more or less to an acute form in different indi- 

 viduals, and sometimes obtuse: heneatheach thigh 

 is a row of perforated papilla?, as in the Green Lizard 

 and many others : the under parts of the body are 

 covered with scales of somewhat dissimilar appear- 

 ance, but all approaching to a round figure. 



The Gecko inhabits obscure recesses, caverns, 

 old walls, trees, &c. &c. and wanders about chiefly 

 on the approach of rain. It is considered as of a 

 poisonous nature, a highly acrimonious kind of 

 fluid exsuding from the lamella? of the feet, which 

 remaining on the surface- of fruit or any other 

 edible substance is often productive of trouble- 

 some symptoms to those who happen to swallow 

 it. From the peculiar structure of its feet, the 

 Gecko can readily adhere to the smoothest sur- 

 faces. The general colour of the animal is pale 

 brown, with a few irregular dusky or blueish va- 

 riegations, but in those which inhabit the warmer 

 regions of the globe this colour seems to be ex- 

 alted into a much more brilliant appearance. 



Va r. ? 



T O K A J. 



THIS kind is described by the Jesuit Mission- 

 aries from Lewis the fourteenth to Siam. Its 



