WHITE-STRIPED GECKO. 2? 1 



rather longer than the body, and flat or ancipital*: 

 the toes lamellated beneath, and all furnished with 

 claws : the colour of the upper parts is cinereous ; 

 the abdomen white ; and the tail variegated by 

 ten or eleven blackish clouds or bars : about the 

 sides of the nose and eyes are several scattered 

 pores. This species is considered as perfectly in- 

 noxious. It appears to be omitted in the Gme- 

 linian edition of the Systema Natura?. 



WHITE-STRIPED GECKO. 



Lacerta Vittata. L. fusco-Jla'ie&cens, fascia dorsali alba super 



caputfurcata, 

 Yellowish-brown Gecko, with a white dorsal band forked over 



the head. 

 L. vittata. L. cauda tereti lingo, dorsi -ritta alba dichotama. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmd. p. IOC'7. Houttuyn. Act. Uliss. 9. 



p . 325. t. 2. 

 Stellio bifurciter. Schneid Amph. Phys. Spec. Alt. p. 21. 



THE White-striped Gecko is one of the smaller 

 species, measuring about seven or eight inches in 

 length, and is of a somewhat more slender form 

 than the rest : the head is large in proportion 

 to the body ; the limbs of moderate length ; and 

 the tail, which is slightly verticillated towards the 

 base, is rather slender, and scarcely equal to the 

 body in length : the toes are lamellated beneath, 

 marked bv a sulcus or middle division, and ter- 



* It is not clear, from Osbeck's description, whether the tail be 

 vertically or laterally compressed. 



