FIMBRIATED GECKO. 



minated by curved claws. This species is readily 

 distinguished from all others yet discovered by its 

 colour, being of a yellowish brown, marked on the 

 back, from head to tail, by a very distinct white 

 band, which on the head divides into a forked ap- 

 pearance, and at the commencement of the tail 

 into two short rounded tips : the slender part of 

 the tail, commencing beyond the three first rings, 

 is of the same pale or white colour, marked lon- 

 gitudinally with several short, brown, scattered 

 streaks. The whole upper surface of the animal 

 is beset with extremely small tubercles, so minute 

 as not to be perceived without a close inspection. 

 It is said to be a native of India. 



FIMBRIATED GECKO. 



Lacerta Fimbriata. L. corpore utrinque margine membranaceo 

 Jimbfiato, cauda plana, pcdum lumeUis sitlco divisis. 



Gecko with membranaceous fimbriated border on each side 

 of the body, flat tail, and lamella? of the feet divided by a 

 furrow. 



Stellio fimbriatus. Sc/intid. Amph. Phys. Sp. Alt. p. 32. 



La Tete-Plate. Cepede Ovip. p. 425. pi. 30. 



THIS remarkable species seems to have been first 

 described by the Count de Cepede, who informs 

 us that it appears in some degree to connect the 

 Chameleon, the Gecko, and the Water Newts; 

 the head, skin, and general form of the body 

 resembling those of the Chameleon, the tail that 

 of the Water Newts, being of a compressed form, 

 though in a different manner (not vertically but 



