42 ItKl'TlLlA. 



granulalcd, but without tubercles above; small scales beneath; 

 its rialurally loiijj tail, vvliich is cticiicled with plaits as usual, 

 is easily broken, and the new one that succeeds is sometimes 

 considerably cnlar.tjed,, resembling a small radish. It is from 

 these accidental monstrosities that it has received the name of 

 (S. rniiuuiiuld.i I) 

 111 the fouilh divisi(jii (jI' the Clcckos, or 



P'IVOUA0TyLl,(2) 



The cuds (jf ihc toes only are dilated into plates, the under sur- 

 face of which is striated so as to resemble a fan. The middle of the 

 plate is split and the nail placed in the fissure. Each toe has a 

 Htroni-';ly hook("d nail. 



'I'he Iocs of sotne. are free, and their tail round. 



Jaic. fj;i:cko, llassehj. ; Gecko luhalus, CJeoif. Rcpt. Egyp. Ill, 

 5; Stdlio J/un»(:l(/uinlii, Schn. Smooth; reddish-grey dotted with 

 brown; the scales and tul)ercles very small; common in houses 

 on the south and east of the Mediterranean. At Cairo it is 

 called the JIhou 6wrs (father of leprosy), on account of its com- 

 municating that disease by poisoning (as they say) the salted 

 pi'ovisions and olher aliments with its feet, in crawling over 

 I hem. In passing over the skin it occasions a redness, but this 

 is perhaps solely owing to the fineness of its nails. Its cry 

 somewhat resenildes that of a Fiog. 

 In others, each side of the tail is edged with a membrane, and the 

 feet are semi-palmate; they are probalily atjuatic, and are the Uuo- 

 I'LATiss of Dumcril. 



S/r/lio Jiinhrui/ifN, Sclin.; Le Gecko Jrangr; Tele, plate, Lac, or 

 I'aino-i'anlrala o^ Mu(la!',ascar, IJrug.; Lacep. I,xxx; i)aud. IV, 

 Hi. 'I"hc membrane on the sides of the tail extending along the 

 Hanks where it is slashed and fringed. Found in Madagascar 

 upon trees, where il leaps from branch to Ijranch. The natives, 

 though without any reason, hold it in great fear. (3) 



Jaic. caudivcrbcra, L.; Gecko du J'rrou, Feuilltc, I, 319. No 

 fringe on the. sides of the body, it being confined to those of the 

 tail on which there is also a vertical membranous crest. Fcuillcc 

 found it in a spring in the Cordilleras. It is blackish and 

 more than a foot long. 



(1) The O. squnlidus, Herm. if not the same as the Ixvis, belongs to this divi- 

 Hion. 'IMui (ircko dr Sitr'nuim, Diiiul. is only :i y(>iin};'(-r riiid Ix-tler coloured speci- 

 men of tlie limx. 



(2) Kroni wJuov, fun. 



(3) According- to llrup6rc's description, the Sarroubc oi Miid;ig";isc:ir hiis:d! the 

 chuructcrs of the Fiiino-cantnitu, i;xcci)t the fringe und a deficiency of the tliuml) 

 in the fore leet. M . I'il/.ing'er hus taken il for his geniih Sauiujiia. 



