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over the head, and on the root of the tail, around 

 this last are white rings. This species belongs to 

 the East Indies. In Amboyna it rests on the branches 

 of the arbustum, called Pandang.* 



There are some of these platydactyles with four 

 claws, whose body is bordered with an horizontal 

 membrane, and feet palmated. 



One of the most remarkable is 



Lacerta homalocephala. Crevett. Soc. des Nat. de 

 Berlin, 1809, pi. viii. 



Which has the sides of the head and body augmented 

 with a white membrane, which is cut into festoons 

 on the sides of the tail, its feet are palmated. It is 

 found in Java and Bengal. t 



There is another species in the Indies, with the 

 head and body bordered, and the feet palmated, but 

 without festoons to the tail, and pores to the anus. 

 (Pteropleura. Horsjieldii, Gray, Zool. Journ. No. 

 X. p. 222.) 



Finally some plactydactyles have claws on all the 

 toes. 



We have one species of them quite smooth, with 

 palmate feet. (^A. Leachianus, nobis.) 



A second division of the Geckos whicli I shall 

 call 



* N.B. Daudin erroneously gives claws to the thumbs of these two 

 Geckos. 



•j- M. Fitzinger makes of this his genus Ptychozoon. Mr. Gray 

 separates from it his Pt£ropu;ura, in consequence of the absence of tlie 

 pores. 



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