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crest. Greyish above ; wing-membranes above broadly edged with 

 brick-red, with four more or less distinct black transverse bands 

 spotted with white ; white beneath, immaculate or with a few 

 black spots near the body; throat blue or bluish, gular appendage 

 yellow ; male with the inner side of the lateral wattle red or 

 orange, covering a large black spot. 



From snout to vent 110 millim.; tail 195. 



Malay Peninsula. First described from a single female specimen 

 from Telom, Perak-Pahang Boundary, altitude about 4000 feet. 

 I have since referred to the same species two male specimens from 

 the hills above the Semangko Pass, Selangor (3500 feet). 



57. Draco blanfordii. 



Draco viajor {non Laur.), Blanf. Journ. Asiatic Soc. Ben"-al, xlvli, 



p. 125 (ISTS). 

 Draco bUmfurdii, Boulenp-. Cat. Liz. i, p. 207, pi. xx, fig. 7 (1885); 



id. Faun. Brit. Ind., Kept. p. 112 (1890); Boettg-. Ber. Otfenb. 



Ver. Nat. 1892, p. 100; Bouleug. Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 153 



(1903). 



Head small ; snout constricted above, with deeply concave 

 loreal region, slightly longer than diameter of orbit ; nostril 

 directed upwards, but not perfectly vertical : tympanum naked. 

 Upper head-scales unequal, keeled ; a prominent tubercle at 

 posterior corner of orbit ; 9 or 10 keeled upper labials. Gular 

 apj)endage of male much longer than head, thin, translucent, 

 covered with very large scales. Male with a slight nuchal fold. 

 Dorsal scales equal, smooth or very feebly keeled, not larger than 

 ventrals ; a lateral series of distant enlarged keeled scales. Fore 

 limb extending considerably beyond tip of snout, hind limb 

 reaching axilla or not quite so far. No caudal crest. Grev- 

 brown above, with small dark spots ; wing-membranes above 

 marbled with dark brown, with lighter spots and lines, beneath 

 immaculate; throat unspotted, greenish, pale scarlet beneath the 

 lateral wattles. 



From snout to vent 121 millim.; tail 235. 



Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Juukceylon Island, Butang 

 Islands. 



Found in the Larut Hills, Perak, in Selangor, and in the 

 Patani States and Trang, but not below 2500 feet in the more 

 southern portions of the Peninsula. 



58. Draco formosus. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vi, p. 190 (1900) ; id. Fascic 

 Malay., Zool. i, p. 152 (1903) ; id. Journ. Fed. Mai. St. Mus iii 

 p. 65 (1908). 



Head small ; snout as long as or slightly longer than diameter 

 of orbit; nostril vertical, directed upwards; tympanum naked. 

 Upper head-scales unequal, keeled; 9 to 11 keeled upper labials. 

 Gular appendage of male as long as head or a little longer, verv 

 thin, translucent, covered with very large scales. Nuchal fold 



