290 . SATJRIA. 



Fig. 3, its profile'; and, — fig. 4, an under view of the same region. 

 Mg. 6, the left hand, from above;— fig. 6, the same, from beneath. 

 Fig. 7, a group of dorsal scales. 

 Fig. 8, a group of abdominal scales. 

 Figs. 2-8, are somewhat magnified. 



Genus GEKKO, Laur. 



Gen. Char. — Pupil vertical. Back scaly, with scattered larger tuber- 

 cles. Femoral pores, but no preanal ones. Tail subquadrangular. 

 Fingers and toes free, unequal, dilated towards their extremity, pro- 

 tected beneath with continuous, transverse plates ; the last joint short, 

 compressed, inflexed, clawed. Thumbs without the last joint, hence 



" clawless. 



SYN.—Ge7c7co, Laur. Synops. Kept. 1768, 43,— Mere. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, 

 89. 



Gecko, Daud. Hist. nat. Kept. IV, 1802, 105.— Oppel, Kept. Prodr. 1811, 23.— 

 Cuv. Regn. Anim. II, 1817, 44.— Gray, Catal. Lizz. Brit. Mus. 1846, 160. 



Observ.— This genus corresponds, to a certain degree, to the 

 Division B, " Heterolepidotes fissipedes, Tetronyx;' which Messrs. 

 Dum^ril & Bibron have established in their genus Platijdactylm. 



1. Gekko indicits, Grd. 



(Plate XVI, figs. 9-16.) 



Spec. Char. — Longitudinal rows of large and distant tubercles on the 

 back, with imbricated, quadrangular, and smooth scales. A series 

 of hexagonal, large gular shields in front, under the lower labials. 

 Color greyish-blue, spotted with orange-red. 



^Syn. — Salamandra indica, BoNT. in Piso: Ind. utr. re nat. et med. 17 . . , 57. 

 GekJco ceylonicus, Seba, Thes. Nat. I, 1734, 170. Tab. CVIII, fig. 1-9. 

 Lacerta gecko, Linn. Mus. Adolph. Fred. I, 1754, 46; &, Syst. Nat. I, ed. XII% 1766, 

 365.— Gm. Limi. Syst. Nat. ed. XIII% 1788, 1068.— Shaw, Gen. Zool. ni, 1802, 264. 



PI. LXXVII. 



L. guttata, Hermann, Obs. Zool. Posth. 1804, 156. 

 Gekho teres, Laur. Synops. Kept. 1768, 44. 



