62 AGAMIDJE, 



feeble or absent. Dorsal scales equal, smooth or very feebly 

 keeled, not larger than ventrals ; a lateral series of distant 

 enlarged scales. Fore limb extending considerably beyond tip 

 of snout, hind limb reaching axilla. No caudal crest. Brown 

 above, head greyer, with dark spots, which may form bars on the 

 nape and body ; a black spot between the orbits and one or three 

 on the nape ; wing-membranes olive or pale gamboge above, 

 edged with maroon or crimson, with five more or less regular, 

 often indistinct transverse bands of blackish motlling, uncoloured 

 beneath ; tlu'oat of male, under the lappets and right to base of 

 gular appendage, maroon or crimson, of female dark green. 



Frooi snout to vent 100 millim.; tail 200. 



Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Discovered by 

 Mr. A. L. Butler on the Larut Hills, Perak, between loOO and 

 3000 feet altitude. Has since been found in the Patani States, in 

 Pahang, in Selangor from sea-level to an altitude of 3500 feet, 

 in Sumatra, and in the interior of Sarawak. 



A very close ally of this species is the Burmese-Siamese 

 D. io'iiiopterus, Gthr., a smaller lizard, in which the hind limb 

 reaches beyond the axilla. 



59. Draco microlepis. 



Bouleng. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 523, pi. xlii, fig. 2. 



Head small ; snout shorter than diameter of orbit ; nostril 

 directed upwards, perfectly vertical ; tympanum naked. Upper 

 head-scales very small, keeled, subequal on snout ; 11 to 14 

 upper labials. Grular appendage of iDale as long as head or a 

 little longer, covered with moderately large scales. No nuchal 

 fold or crest. Dorsal scales equal, keeled, a little smaller than 

 ventrals ; a lateral series of a few widely separated enlarged 

 keeled scales. Pore limb extending with the whole hand beyond 

 tip of snout, hind limb reaching axilla or shoulder. . No caudal 

 crest. Pale grey-brown above, with dark spots and marblings ; 

 wing-membranes above with black marblings forming five rather 

 ill-defined transverse bands, beneath immaculate; base of gular 

 appendage and inner surface of lateral wattles purplish red ; 

 a large black spot on each side of the base of the gular 

 appendage in the male. 



From snout to vent 80 millim. ; tail 165. 



Originally described from North Borneo. Has since been 

 found on the Larut Hills, Perak, at 3500 ft. altitude. 



60. Draco melanopogon. 



Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 492 (1887) ; Lindholm, .Tahrb. Nass. Ver. 



liv, p. 26 (1901); Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1901, i, p. 307; BouleiiL'-. 



Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 152 (1903). 

 Draco nigriappendiculutiis, E. Bartlett, Crocod. Liz. Borneo, p. 82 



(1895). 



Head small ; snout shorter than diameter of orbit ; nostril 

 directed upwards, vertical ; tympanum naked. Upper head-scales 



