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colours were still quite fresh, in all of the females the throat was 

 maroon or crimson, as in the male, a little paler perhaps, but not 

 much, and certainly never green. The gular pouch in the female is 

 represented by a short tag. 



22. Draco melaxopogon Bouleng. 

 Khao Wang Hip, Nakon Sitaniarat, 7 d,2 9. 



Largest, a cT, head and body 80 mm., tail 170. The neck, 

 shoulders, and upper surface of the limbs of all these specimens have 

 a handsome slate-blue lustre. The species is not known nortli of this 

 latitude. 



23. Draco quinquefasciatus Gray. 



Tanjong Mas and Bangnara, Patani. b6, 22. 



It is noticeable in the series of Dracos just named, that the 

 number of males obtained is considerably in excess of the females. 

 Whether this is due to the more active habits of the former, whereby 

 it comes more frequently under notice, or to the actual preponderance 

 of one sex over another, it would be of interest to find out. 



24. AcANTHOSAURA ARM ATA (Gray). 



Smiih, Jouin. Nat. Hist. Soc. Sinm, II, p. 53. 



Bangnara, Patani; Khao Wang Hip (upper and lower camps), 

 Nakon Sitnmarat ; Maprit and Klong Bang Lai, I'atiyu. 



Numbers of this common and very variable jungle-loving 

 lizard were obtained from the localities above mentioned. On Khao 

 Wang Hip it was evidently quite common, as no less than 19 speci- 

 mens were obtained there, and the variations in the length of the 

 post-orbital and nuchal spines in this large series have already been 

 recorded ( antea p. 53 ). With these before one, all of which were 

 from the same locality, it was evident that A. criccigera, which had 

 been separated from ai-mata by Mr. Boulenger on account of the length 

 of these spines, was not a separate species, but merely an individual 

 variation of the latter. I have referred this point to Mr. Boulenger, 

 and he quite agrees with the decision. 



In colouration these specimens were also extremely variable. 

 Grey, brown, sometimes almost black, with dark marblings and 

 patches on the back and sides, the most constantly present of these 

 being a large diamond-shaped one across the back between 



JOUKN. NAT. nibT. SOC. KIAM. 



