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rather longer than the body, and flat or ancipitaP: 

 the toes lamellated beneath, and all furnished with 

 claws : the colour of the upper parts is cinereous ; 

 the abdomen white; and the tail variegated by 

 ten or eleven blackish clouds or bars : about the 

 sides of the nose and eyes are several scattered 

 pores. This species is considered as perfectly in- 

 noxious. It appears to be omitted in the Gme- 

 linian edition of the Systema Naturae, 



WHITE-STRIPED GECKO. 



Lacerta Vittata. L, fusco-Jlaiescens, fascia dorsali alba super 

 caput f areata. 



Yellowish-brown Gecko, with a white dorsal band forked over 

 the head. 



L. vittata. L. cauda tereti longay dorsi vitta alba dichotoma, 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. IO67. Houttuyn. Act. Uliss. p. 

 p. 325. t. 2. 



Stellio bifurcifer. Schneid Awph. Phys. Spec. Alt. p. 21, 



The White-Striped Gecko is one of the smaller 

 species, measuring about seven or eight inches in 

 length, and is of a somewhat more slender form 

 than the rest: the head is large in proportion 

 to the body; the limbs of moderate length; and 

 the tail, which is slightly verticillated towards the 

 ,base, is rather slender, and scarcely equal to the 

 body in length : the toes are lamellated beneath, 

 marked by a sulcus or middle division, and ter- 



* It is not clear, from Osbeck's description, whether the tail be 

 vertically or laterally compressed. 



