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1906. Bryant got many more : — eighteen from Buitenzorg ; seven from Gunung 

 Bmider, Mt. Salak; two from Tjibodas; one from Depok; and one from Daroe, 



Bantam. 



The curious spindle-shaped eggs are often found in loose earth about tree 

 trunks or in decaying vegetable matter, such as old leaves ®r the rubbish in hol- 

 low trees or logs. 



Calotes versicolor (Daudin). 

 Daudin, Hist. nat. rept., 1802, 3, p. 395, pi. 44. Boulengbb, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 1, p. 321. 



Tyve locality:— Daudin based his description on two specimens in the Paris 

 museum. He did not mention whence they came. He identifies them, however, 

 with a lizard which Seba figured as coming from Brazil. Daudin undoubtedly 

 believed that he was describing a lizard from tropical South America. 



Individuals from Calcutta; the Teesta Valley, Sikkim; Mandalay; and 

 Saigon, which were got in 1906-1907, do not show constant variations correlated 

 with the places where they were found. 



Dendragama fruhstorferi Boettqer. 

 BoETTGER, Zool. aiiz., 1893, 16, p. 335. 



Type locality:— Tjiserupan, west Java. 



An a])undant species in the mountain regions at an altitude of over 4,000 

 feet. It is partial to sunny glades in rather heavy forest, and is rather strictly 



arboreal. 



Both my own and Bryant's collection had large series, the latter the larger. 



The species is, so far as known, confined to west Java, the only other member 

 of the genus being found on Sumatra. 



Hydrosaurus amboinensis (Schu)8ser). 

 Plate 4, fig. 11. 

 SCHLOSSER, Epist., Hornst. Abh. acad. Stockh., 1785, 6, p. 130, pi. 5, fig. 1. Barbour, Proc. Biol. 8oc. 

 Wash., 1911, 24, p. 19. 



Type locality: — Ambon. 



A specimen from Piru, Ceram, agrees absolutely with a topotype recently 

 taken in Ambon and now in the United States national museum. It has been 

 described (Barbour loc. cit.) in connection with the original description of the 

 following species. 



So far as known this form occurs on Ambon and Ceram only. 



