798 EEPTILIA, 



¥wD.i\j,—GECKOTIDJl. 



Genus Gecko, Gray. 

 Gecko guttattjs, Daudin. 



Lacerta gecko, Linn., Mus. Adolpli. Frid., vol. i, 1754, p. 46 ; Syst. Nat., xii ed., vol. i, 1766, p. -36.5 ; 



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



Ixxvii. 

 Gehko teres, Laur., Synops. Kept., 1768, p. 44. 

 Gekko veriicellattis, Laur., Synops. Rept., 1768, p. 44. 

 Gecko guttahis, Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., 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 ; Deser. Cat. Rept., Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 71, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soe., 



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

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



GeUo verus, Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph., 1820, p. 43; Gray, Zool. Journ., vol. iii, 1827, p. 223. 

 Gecko annnlattm, 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. 

 Platydactylus guttat%s, Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. Genl., vol. iii, 1836, p. 328, pi. xsviii, fig. 4; Guerin, 



Iconogr. Reg. An., 1834, pi. xiii; Dumeril, Cat. Method. Rept., 1851, p. 36. 

 Tlatijdactylus revesii, Dumeril, Cat. Method, des Rept., 1851, p. 37. 

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



Specimens of this species are not nnfrequent 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 wliite. 



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 Hemidactylxjs, Cuvier. 

 Sub" Genus Peripia, Gray. 

 Hemidacttltjs (Pekipia) meyebi, Bleeker. 



Platydactylus lugubris, 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 ; Deser. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 80, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 voL xxxix, 1870, p. 163 ; id. ojo. cit., vol. xli, 1872, p. 103, Ferguson, Rept. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 12, 1877. 



Gecko liarrieti, 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, 



