236 REPTILES. 



The Spotted Winged Dragon. Dracunculus maculatus, 

 Gray, B. M. 1837. 



Grey, black-spotted ; wings black-spotted ; throat grey, pouch 

 of the male elongate ; scales of the back rather unequal, rhombic, 

 keeled, of the sides rather smaller, sides with a series of large 

 keeled scales ; ears rather sunk, with unequal flat scales ; tail 

 slender, with a central keel above and 5 more small ones on the 

 sides, base dilated, with 5 nearly equidistant equal keels above. 



rt. In spirits. Penang. From Capt. Hay's collection. 



6, c. In spirits. Asia. Presented by Sir James MacGregor. 



Weigmann's Flying Lizard. Dracunculus spilopterus, 

 Weigm. Act. Nat. Cur. xvii. 216, t. 15. Gervais, Voy. Favour, t. 

 Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 461. Schlegel, Ahhild. 92. 



Wings reddish near the body, with large brown spots, yellow 

 near the edge ; throat yellow, black-spotted. 



Inhab. Manilla ? Mus. Paris. 



May be the same as the fonner, but the wings subelliptic, but 

 the scales in the figure do not exactly agree. 



b. Ribs simple. Back crested. 



* Toes 5-4. Scales subequal. Ears exposed. Sitanina. 



4. SiTANA, Cuv. Semiophorus, Wagler ^' Weigm. 



Head pyramidical, quadrangular, short, covered with small 

 nearly equal keeled scales. Ear-drum small, round, superficial. 

 Tongue thick, fungous, entire. Throat without any cross fold in 

 front or plaits upon the sides ; the males with a large compressed 

 throat-pouch. Nape with a rudimentary crest. Body subquad- 

 rangular. Back rounded. Scales rhombic, keeled, imbricate, ge- 

 nerally equal, of the sides rather smaller. Tail long, conical, not 

 keeled. Toes 5 in front, 4 behind. Femoral pores none. 



The SiTANA. Sitana Ponticereana, Cuv. R. A. u. 43, t. 6,/. 

 2. Guerin., Icon. t. 10, f. 2. Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. 57. Dum. et 

 Bib. E. G. iv. 437. Wkgler, Sys. 152. Weigin. H. M. 14. 



Fulvous; back with a central series of rhombic spots, and pale 

 streak down each side ; the pouch of the males 3-coloured. 



a, b. Adult, stuff'ed. Male, scales of the sides equal. India. 



c. In spirits. Male. India. 



J, e. In spirits. Male. India. 



f^g. Inspirits. Male and female. Throat of male pale, sides 



with a few larger scattered scales, occiput rather tubercular. 



India. 



