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LIZARDS. 



Lobe-Footed 

 Gecko. 



The geckos being so numerous in species, which are arranged 

 under no less than forty -nine genera, it is of course impossible in a 

 work like the present to do more than notice a few of the better known or more 

 striking. Among these, one of the most familiar is the little lobe- or fan-footed 

 gecko (Ptyodactylus lobatus), of Northern Africa, Arabia, and Syria. This is one 

 of two species belonging to a genus characterised by the toes (as shown in the 



Turkish gecko (nat. size). 



figure on p. Ill), being dilated at their summits, where they are furnished inferiorly 



with two diverging series of plates ; the digits being furnished with claws capable 



of retraction within notches in the front of the disc. The upper surface is covered 



with granules, among which are some small keeled tubercles ; the colour being 



greyish or yellowish brown above, with darker and light spots, and below uniform 



white. The length is a little over 5 inches. 



Equally well known is the Turkish gecko (Hemidactylus tur- 

 Turkish. Gecko. * J . ,& . \ ... . 



cicus), represented in the figure above, which is likewise a small 



