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LIZARDS. 
Lobe-Footed The geckos being so numerous in species, which are arranged 
Gecko. under no less than forty-nine genera, it is of course impossible in a 
work like the present to do more than notice a few of the better known or more 
striking. Among these, one of the most familiar is the little lobe- or fan-footed 
gecko (Ptyodactylus lobatus), of Northern Africa, Arabia, and Syria. This is one 
of two species belonging to a genus characterised by the toes (as shown in the 
Turkish gecko (nat. size). 
figure on p. Ill), being dilated at their summits, where they are furnished inferiorly 
with two diverging series of plates; the digits being furnished with claws capable 
of retraction within notches in the front of the disc. The upper surface is covered 
with granules, among which are some small keeled tubercles; the colour being 
greyish or yellowish brown above, with darker and light spots, and below uniform 
white. The length is a little over 5 inches. 
Equally well known is the Turkish gecko (Hemidactylus tur- 
Turkisb Gecko. 1 J ® J 
cicus), represented m the figure above, which is likewise a small 
