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CLASSIFICATION OF BEPTILES. 



the front of the male produced into two compressed 

 squamose horns. 



D, bifurcatus. Griflf. Cuv. ix, pi. 29. 



Family 2. IGUANIDiE. Spine-hacked or Thick- 



tongued Lizards. 



Toes free ; palate frirnished with teeth ; tongue fleshy, 

 thick, not extensible^ and only emarginate or notched at 

 the tip. 



Platydactylus. Geckos, or Flat-toed Lizards. Tongue 

 largCj flat_, and almost entire at its tip ; head and body 

 broad^ much depressed ; toes nearly equal, generally 

 dilated on their sides, and marked beneath with 

 transverse folds : the natatorial type. 



a. Phyllurus australis, Sw. 

 h. Platydactylus inunguis. 



c. Hemid. trihedi-ans. 



d. Stenodacty. guttatus. 



e. Hemidactylus tuberculo- 



sus, upper side. 



f. Hemidactylus tuberculo- 



sus, under side. 



g. Ptyodactylus lobatus. 



h. Platydactylus theconyx, 

 Dum. 



Platydactylus Cuv. {^fig. 123. &.) Toes more or less en- 

 larged along their whole length ; the inferior laminae 

 imbricated, entire, or divided in the middle. 

 P. ocellatus Cuv. theconyx. Dum. Erpet. Gen, pi. S3, fig. 2. 



Hemidactylus Cuv. (c.e.f.) Basal joint of four or five 



