272 FIMBRIATED GECKO. 



minated by curved claM S. This species is readily 

 distinguished from ail others yet discovered by its 

 colour, being of a yellowish brown, marked on the 

 back, from head to tail, by a very distinct white 

 band, which on the head divides into a forked ap- 

 pearance, and at the commencement of the tail 

 into two short rounded tips : the slender part of 

 the tail, commencing beyond the three first rings, 

 is of the same pale or white colour, marked lon- 

 gitudinally with several short, brown, scattered 

 streaks. The whole upper surface of the animal 

 is beset with extremely small tubercles, so minute 

 as not to be perceived without a close inspection. 

 It is said to be a native of India. 



FIMBRIATED GECKO. 



Lacerta Fimbriata. L. corpore nirinque niargine rnembranaceo 

 Jimbriato, cauda p/ana, pedum laniellis svico divim'. 



Gecko with membranaceous fimbriated border on each side 

 of the body, fiat tail, and lamella? of the feet divided by a 

 furrow. 



Stellio fimbriatus. Schneid. Jwph. Fhys, Sp. Alt. p. 32. 

 La Tete-Plate. Cepedc Ovip. p. 425. pL 30. 



This remarkable species seems to have been first 

 described by the Count de Cepede, A\'ho informs 

 us that it appears in some degree to connect the 

 Chameleon, the Gecko, and the Water Newts; 

 the head, skin, and general form of the body 

 resembling those of the Chameleon, the tail that 

 pf the Water Newts, being of a compressed form, 

 though in a difi'erent manner (not vertically but 



