Gecko caracal, Tytler, I. c., p. 547.
Hemidactylus sublavis, Theobald, Joiirn. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, ex. No., p. 80.
? Hemidactylus jpunctatus, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxii, 1858, p. 467.
Three females and two males, all from Bhamd, have the sacral region, sides, and
upper surface of the tail with a few scattered flattened enlarged tubercles, more
numerous in the two first regions in some specimens, than in others. The upper
surface of the tail is marked by a number of verticils, each of which hears about six
of these tubercles, the most external of which is somewhat spinose. In the reproduced
tail, this verticillate arrangement more or less disappears, and it is smooth laterally
and superiorly. The under surface is olad with enlarged plates, and the tail is somewhat
depressed and tapers to a very fine point. All the upper parts are finely granular.
Forty to forty-three longitudinal rows of scales on the belly. The femoral
pores number 32, interrupted in the mesial line by a small scale in one specimen,
but continuous in the other male. A mesial patch of enlarged preanal scales.
The thumb and inner toe small, especially the latter, on which the small claw is
distinctly present in all the specimens. The upper labials vary from 11 to 12, and
the lower, from 8 to 9. The two pairs of enlarged shields behind the mental are very
persistent. The coloration is variable, as some are uniformly coloured olive-grey
above, and in these there is no band through the eye; whilst others are much darker
and marbled with blackish, and in these the hand through the eye is present.
The intestine of the species is provided with a distinct rascal enlargement, at
the commencement of the large intestine, which is less than one-third the length of
the small intestine which equals the distance between the snout and vent. The
stomach of one male was filled with the elytra of a small beetle.
This species I found only on trees, and usually huddled together in little groups
of three or four of different ages in crevices of the hark.
The distribution of this species is very extensive, as it has been recorded from
Ceylon, Bengal, Assam, Burma, the Andamans and Nicobars, the Malayan Peninsula
and Archipelago, Siam and Cochin China; and Peters records it from the.Seychelles.
-A G A M IM .'
Genus D r a c o , linn.
D r a c o maculattjs, Gray.
Dracmcutus maeutabus, Gray, Cat. Lizards, B. M., 1845, p. 286.
Draco maculatus, Cantor, Jonm. As. Soc., Bengal, 1847, vol. xri, p. 645; Gunther, Bept., Brit.
Ind., 1864, p. 125, pi. xiii, c.; Theobald, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, 1868, vol. xxxvii, Suppl. No!
p. 8 4 ; Joum, Linn. Soe., vol. x, 1868, p. 8 3 ; Descr. Cat. Kept. Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 97.
Two examples of this species Were caught at Ponsee, one of them in ah inseot net
while in the act of springing from tree to tree, across a thickly wooded hill tract.
The specimens which I have examined from Pegu are smaller than Assam and
Yunnan individuals, but I do not observe that they differ in. any other respect from
the types with which I have compared the latter.
This flying lizard' has a hidden tympanum, and is thus referable to Dracrni-
culm, Weigmann, but such a slight modification of the peripheral characters is not
- sufficient to constitute a sub-genus.
This species has also been found in Assam, Pegu, and Siam, and through
Tenasserim to Penang.
Genus 3 a p a l t t r a , Gray,
J a pa l t jr a TiJNNAinsNSis, n . s . Plate 1 X X V T , fig.. 2.
A rather large, conically spinose tubercle behind the superciliary ridge, with a
more or less developed ridge passing obliquely backwards on the occiput to the
origin of the nuchal crest. A prominent ridge of three to four large conical tubercles
behind the eye and over the hidden tympanum. Scales rather small, keeled and
imbricate, with a number of large scales scattered singly and in groups over the
side and back; the tips of all directed obliquely backwards and upwards. Scales
of the under surfaoe keeled, those of the throat small. Scales, of under surface of
toes keeled. Those of the tail keeled; the sub-caudals the largest. Nuchal crest
feebly developed, consisting of triangular lobes; it is prolonged along the back
as an obscurely serrated ridge, disappearing on the base of the tail. A fold across
the neck- In females (males not known) a longitudinal ridge of skir, in the position
of the gular sack. About 45 scales in a longitudinal row from limb to limb.
Dentition in two females (1) £ + and (2 ) The firstfemale
is old and has lost some of the teeth of the lower jaw. Two canines in each jaw
Hind leg extends in one specimen to near the eye, in another it does not reach the
mouth. General colour olive, with a tinge of brown. A well marked black' band
with a yellow anterior margin from the posterior margin of eye to the angle of
mouth. Five black transverse bands, somewhat irregular on the back, narrow and
distinct on the neck, hut broad on the body, and separated from each other by narrow
olive-yellow bands. The large scales are chiefly distributed on these light-coloured
bands. Tail faintly handed brown and olive. Under surface uniform olive yellow.
The two specimens which have served for the foregoing description are both
females from the neighbourhood of (Momien) Teng-yue-chow. They measured
about the same size : total length 10"; tail 7 inches.
Meamrements of the different species of JapaUtroe.
Vent to snout. Fore limb. Hind limb. Hand. Foot. Fourth finger. '- Fourth toe.a’
J . v a r ieg a ta . . . .
•71 sw in n o n is . . . .
«71 yu n n a n e n s is . . . .
<71 p la n id o r s a ta . . . .
<71 n ig r ila b r is .
•71 mtc ro lep is, $ Jerd.
Inches.
3-14 •
2-92
3*95
1-90
1-90
2-65
Inches.
1'56
1-45
1-50
0-92 1-20
1-30
Inches.
2-70
2 4 7 2*10
1*45
1-90 2-20
Inches.
0 '6 4
0'55
0-65
0-39
0-45
0-55
Inches.
1-02
0-96
0-61
0-70 1
0-95
Inches.
0-58
0'45
0-53
0-31
0-35 •
0-48
Inches.
0-80
0-56
0-60
; 0-37
0-39
0-56
Measured from base of 6th finger. 9 Measured from base of 3rd toe.