798 EEPTILIA. 



Family,— GSCKOTIDJE. 



Genus Gecko, Gray. 

 Gecko guttatus, Daudin. 



Lacerta gecko, Linn., Mus. Adolph. Frid., vol. i, 1754, p. 46 ; Syst. Nat., xii ed., vol. i, 1766, p. 365 ; 



Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat., ed. xiii, 1788, p. 1068 ; Shaw, Genl. Zool., vol. iii, 1802, p. 264, pi. 



Ixxvii. 

 GeMo teres, Laur., Synops. Rept., 1768, p. 44. 

 Gekko veriicellatus, Laur., Synops. Kept., 1768, p. 44. 

 Gecko guttatus, Daudin, Hist. Nat. Eept., vol. iv, 1802, p. 122, pi. xlix ; Gray, Griffith^'s An. Kingd., 



vol. ix, 1831, p. 48; Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 102; Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc., 



vol. x, 1868, p. 28 ; Descr. Cat. Rept., Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 71, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, 



Bengal, vol. xli, 1872. p. 92. 

 Lacerta guttatus, Hermann, Obs. Zool. (Opus. Posth.), 1804, p. 256. 



Gekko verus, Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph., 1820, p. 42; Gray, Zool. Journ., vol. iii, 1827, p. 223. 

 Gecko annulatus, Kuhl., Beitr. Zool., 1820, p. 132. 



Gecko revesii, Gray, Griffith's An. Kingd., vol. ix, 1831, p. 48 ; Cat. Lizards, B.M., 1845, p. 161. 

 Tlatydactylus guttatns, Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. Genl., vol. iii, 1836, p. 328, pi. xxviii, fig. 4; Guerin, 



Iconogr. Reg. An., 1834, pi. xiii,; Jhimeril, Cat. Method. Kept., 1851, p. 86, 

 Flatijclactykis revesii, Dumeril, Cat. Method, des Rept,, 1851, p. 37. " ■ 



Gekko indicMS, Gerard, U. S. Explor. Exped. Herpet., 1858, p. 290, pi. xvi, figs. 9, 16. 



Specimens of this species are not nnfreqnent with as few as eighteen preanal 

 pores ; but in the examples which I obtained in Upper Burma, there are twenty- 

 two in a slightly angular series. The young have occasionally pale yellow transverse 

 bands on the back, and the tail is broadly banded dark brown and white. 



The eggs of this species are strongly compressed ovals, with a long diameter of 

 0*83 inches and are joined together in a mass of sixteen to twenty eggs. 



This is an essentially Malayan form, occurring throughout Burma and the 

 Andamans, and spreading westwards to the neighbourhood of Calcutta and into 

 Assam. 



Genus Hemidactylus, Cuvier. 

 Sub" Genus Pehipia, Gray. 

 Hemidactylus (Peripia) meyeri, Bleeker. 



Tlatydactylus luguhris. Cantor, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi, 1847, p. 622. 



Hemidactylus meyeri, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. xvi, 1859, p. 47. 



Peripia cantoris, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 110 ; Theobald, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, ex. 

 No. 1868, p. 30 ; Descr. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 80, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 163 j idi. op. cit, \o\. xli, 1872, p. 103, Ferguson, Rept. Eaun. Ceylon, 

 p. 12, 1877. 



Gecko harrieti, Tytler, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxiii, 1864, p. 548. 



Peripia meyeri, Giinther, Proc Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 594. 



I have compared this specimen with the type of P. cantoris, Giinther, from 

 Penang, with which it agrees, except in that it has twenty-four femoral pores, 



