THE REPTILES OF EGYPT. 
TARENTOLA. 
Tarentola, Gray, Ann. Phil. (2) 1825, p. 199. 
Digits free, dilated, their under surfaces with undivided transverse lamellae ; only 
the third and fourth digits with claws. Pupil vertical. Neither femoral nor prseanal 
pores. 
Tarentola madritanica l , Linn. (Plate VIII. figs. 1 & 2.) 
Lacerta mauritanica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 1766, p. 361. 
Gecko muricatus, Laur. Syst. Rept. 1768, p. 44. 
Stellio mauritanicus, Meyer, Syn. Rept. 1795, p. 31. 
Gecko fascicularis, Daud. Rept. iv. 1803, p. 144; Licht. Doubl. Berl. Mus. 1823, p. 103. 
Gecko stellio, Merr. Syst. Amph. 1820, p. 43. 
Tarentola stellio, Gray, Ann. Phil. (2) x. 1825, p. 199. 
Gecko mauritanica, Risso, Hist. Nat. Europ. Mer. iii. 1826, p. 87. 
Platydactylus fascicularis, Wagler, Syst. Amph. 1830, p. 142; Gray, Syn. Griffith's An. Kingd. ix. 
1831, p. 48. 
Platydactylus muralis, D.&B. iii. 1836, p.319; Guichenot, Explor. Sc.Alg., Phys. Zool. v. 1850, 
p. 4 ; Steindachner, Unger & Kotschy, Cypern, 1865, p. 572 ; Gasco, Viagg. Egitto, pt. ii. 
1876, p. 110. 
Gecko (Platydactylus) fascicularis, Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vi. 1836, p. 309. 
Ascalabotes mauritanicus, Bonap. Faun. Ital. 1832-41, plate; Amph. Europ. 1839, p. 28 ; Bosca, 
An. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vi. 1877, p. 47. 
I'latydactyla (Tarentola) fascicularis, Gray, Syn. Griffith's An. King. ix. p. 48. 
Ascalabotes fascicularis, Fitz. N. Class. Rept. 1826, p. 47; Syn. Rept. 1848, p. 102. 
Tarentola mauritanica, Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, f p. 164; Tristram, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, 
p. 476 ; Boettger, Abh. Senck. natur. Ges. ix. 1873-75, p. 136 ; Abh. Senck. nat. Ges. 
xii. 1881, p. 380; Kobelt, Reiseerinnerung. Alg. und Tunis, 1885, p. 464-; Peters, Mon. Berl. 
Ak. 1880, p. 306 ; Boulenger, Cat. Liz. B. M. i. 1885, p. 196 ; op. cit. iii. 1887, p. 489 ; Trans. 
Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 115, pi. xiii. fig. 3; Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xii. 1893, p. 204; Werner, 
Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xiii. 1892, p. 351 ; op. cit. xliv. 1894, p. 77 ; Anders. Herp. 
Arabia & Egypt, 1896, pp. 78, 99. 
Platydactylus facetanus, Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii. ser.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 22 ; Schreiber, 
Herp. Europ. 1875, p. 490; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 1879, uo. 3, p. 35 ; 
Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. (Giebel) (2) iv. 1879, p. 510. 
Platydactylus mauritanicus, Boettger, Abh. Senck. nat. Ges. ix. 1874, p. 16; Ber. Senck. nat. Ges. 
1880, p. 193; De Betta, Faun. Ital., Rett, ed Anfibi, 1874, p. 19; Tristram, West. Palest., 
Rept. & Batr. 1884, p. 153. 
Tarentola facetana, Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii. seY.) xxxv. no. 2, 1887, p. 21. 
1 I have figured a epecimen with a renewed tail, as it is the largest in my collection, and, but for this 
blemish, is highly characteristic. 
