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Ilcad-scalcs unequal, a /^-shaped series of enlarged keeled 

 scales on the snout, enlarged scales at the posterior part of the 

 orbit; twelve to fourteen upper labials, the posterior the largest. 

 No nuchal fold. Dorsal scales small, with a single enlarged, 

 keeled scale on each side of the back, nearer to the hind 

 limbs than to the fore limbs. Tail one time and two thirds the 

 length of head and body. The fore limb extends with the 

 whole hand beyond the tip of the snout, the hind limb reaches 

 between axilla and shoulder. 



Light bluish-grey above, with indistinct brown transverse 

 bands, separated anteriorly by whitish cross lines, and with 

 scattered blackish spots; snout and lips blackish; two broad 

 brown, black-edged transverse bands at the interorbital region. 

 Limbs and tail banded with dark, the bands partly broken 

 up into dots. Membranes with many whitish longitudinal lines 

 and indistinct dark cross bands above. Lower parts uniform; 

 throat bluish-grey, with round black spots; gular sac white in 

 the middle; lower parts of the lateral wattles deep black, 

 with a few white spots and separated by a whitish transverse 

 band from the posterior black part of the throat. Length of 

 head and body 90 mm.; tail 152 mm. (After Werner, not 

 seen by me). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Bandar Kwala). 



Draco rostratus, a species described by Giinther in Rept. 

 Brit. Ind. 1864, p. 167 and Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 

 261, is included as doubtful in the Bornean fauna. 



Head small; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit; 

 nostril lateral, directed outwards; tympanum scaly. Head-scales 

 unequal, keeled, those on the median line of the snout the largest; 

 ten upper labials, last largest. Gular sac a little longer than 

 the head. Male with a distinct nuchal crest. Dorsal scales 

 irregular, keeled, those on the vertebral region much larger 

 than ventrals; a lateral series of large keeled scales. Tail about 

 one time and a half the length of head and body. The fore 

 limb extends a good deal beyond the tip of the snout, the hind 

 limb reaches the axilla. 



Greyish above, with metallic gloss; membranes with narrow 

 white longitudinal lines and small round black spots above. 

 Throat and base of gular sac with brown dots. Length of head 



