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Such is, 



Gecko fascicularis, Daud. , Lacert. facetanvs, Aldrov. 654, Tarente 

 of Provence ; Tarentola, or rather Terrentola of the Italians ; Stellio 

 of the ancient Latins; Geckotte, Lacep. ; (The Wall Gecko); of a 

 dark grey ; rough head ; the whole upper surface of the body studded 

 with tubercles, each of which consists of three or four smaller ones ; 

 the scales on the under part of the tail similar to those on the belly. 

 It is a hideous animal, which hides in holes of walls, heaps of stones, 

 &c, covering its body with dust and filth. The same species ap- 

 pears to exist every where about the Mediterranean, and in Provence 

 and Languedoc. 



There is a neighbouring species in Egypt and in Barbary, with 



simple round tubercles, which are more salient on the flanks, — G. 



cegyptiacus, Nob. Egypt. Rept., pi. v, f. 7*. 



The nails are only deficient in the four thumbs of the greater number 



of the platydactyle Geckos. They have a range of pores before the anus-j". 



Such are, 



Gecko, Lacep. I, xxix; Stellio Gecko, Schneid. ; Le Gecko a 

 (jouttelettes, Daud. ; Seb. cviii, the whole plate. Rounded, slightly 

 salient tubercles over the upper surface of the body, whose red ground 

 is sprinkled with round white spots; tail furnished beneath with 

 square and imbricated scales. Seba says it is from Ceylon, and pre- 

 tends that it is to this identical species that the name of Gecko is 

 applied in imitation of its cry; but long before him it was attributed 

 by Bontius to a species of Java. It is probable that the cry and the 

 name are common to several species. We have ascertained that this 

 one is found throughout the Archipelago of India. 



Lac. vittata, Gm. ; Le Gecko a bandes; Lezard de Pandang, at 

 Amboine; Daud. IV, 1. Brown; a white band on the back, which 

 bifurcates on the head and on the root of the tail; tail annulated with 

 white. From the East Indies; found at Amboine on the branches 

 of the shrub called the short Pandang J. 



There are some of these four-nailed Platydactyli whose body is edged 

 with a horizontal membrane, and which have palmated feet. One of the 

 most remarkable is 



Lac.homalocephala, Crevelt., Soc. of Nat. of Berlin, 1809, pl.viii; 

 the sides of whose head and body are augmented by a broad mem- 

 brane, which is scalloped into festoons on the sides of the tail. Its 

 feet are palmated. Found in Java and Bengal §. 



There is another species in India with a bordered head and body, 

 and palmated feet, but in which the festoons on the tail, and the pores 

 near the anus, are deficient, — Pteropeeura, Horsfieldii, Gray, 

 Zool. Jour. No. X, p. 222. 



Finally, some Platydactyli have no nails to all their toes. 



* This fig., in titled Far. dit Gecko annulaire, has too many nails. 

 f This division is the Gecko proper of M. Gray. 



X N. B. Daudin erroneously gives nails to the thumbs of these two Geckos. 

 § This bordered Platydactylus forms the genus Ptychozoon of Fitzinger. M. Gray 

 also separates his Pterotleura from them on account of the absence of the pores. 



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