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Bluish-grey above, dotted with black, the dots sometimesi 

 forming bands; some dark bands on the limbs and digits; 

 tubercles of head and body yellowish; membranes blackish 

 above, with whitish. Interrupted longitudinal lines, below yel- 

 lowish, with a few small, round black spots. Lower parts 

 yellowish- white; throat spotted with black; gular sac and lateral 

 lappets with a large black spot, bordered with yellow. Length 

 of head and body lOO mm.; tail i6o mm. (After Despax, not 

 seen by me). 



Habitat: Java. 



1 8. Draco formosus Boulenger. 



Draco formosus^ Boulenger, Ann. Hist. (7) VI 1900, p. 190. 

 Draco formosus^ Werner, Mitt. Naturli. Hamb. XXVII 1910, p. 12. 

 Draco affinis^ Baumann, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. XXXIV 1913, p. 261. 



Head small; snout slightly longer than the diameter of the 

 orbit; nostril vertical, directed upwards; tympanum naked, 

 smaller than the eye-opening. Head-scales unequal, keeled; a 

 tubercle at the posterior corner of the orbit; nine to eleven 

 keeled upper labials. Gular sac as long as the head, thin, 

 translucent, covered with very large scales. Nuchal fold absent 

 or very feeble. Dorsal scales equal, smooth or slightly keeled, 

 not larger than ventrals; a lateral series of widely separated 

 enlarged scales. Tail without a crest, with a series of enlarged, 

 pointed scales on each side of the base, about twice 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. 



Brown above, with dark spots, forming sometimes bars on 

 the nape and back; head greyish, a black spot between the 

 orbits and one or three on the nape; membranes olive above, 

 edged with maroon or crimson, with five, often indistinct, 

 blackish transverse bands and light longitudinal lines, below 

 uncoloured. Throat spotted or reticulated with dark, in males 

 under the lateral wattles and at the base of the gular sac brownish- 

 red or crimson, in females dark green. Length of head and 

 body 100 mm.; tail 200 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Deli!, Serdang, Battak Highlands 800 — 

 1000 M.! (type of Dr. affinis Baumann); Borneo (Balingeau, 

 Kidi district, Sarawak). — Malacca, .1500 — 3500 feet. 



