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TOKAI. 



length is about a foot : the body is covered above 

 by a granulated skin, varied with red and blue 

 undulations: the back is roughened by a great 

 many longitudinal rows of pale blue conical protu- 

 berances : the belly is cinereous, scattered over with 

 red spots : the head large and triangular : the eyes 

 very large : tongue flat : feet divided into lamellse 

 beneath ; by the help of which the animal adheres 

 to the smoothest surfaces, as if agglutinated to 

 them. It occasionally enters the houses of the 

 Siamese; is considered by them as a poisonous 

 animal, and is called by the title of Tokai, 



Bontius, in his history of Java, appears to de- 

 scribe a similar kind, under the name of the Indian 

 Salamander. It is called Gecco by the Javanese, 

 on account of its shrill cr}^ Its length is about a 

 foot, and its colour sea-green, spotted with red : 

 the head large and toad -like ; the eyes large and 

 extremely protuberant : the body broad, and the 

 tail long. The Javanese are said to hold up the 

 animal by the tail, in order to make it discharge 

 its foam or sanies from its mouth, which they col- 

 lect in order to poison their arrows with. 



