A NEW 8PECTES OE ELYING LIZARD EROM THE PHIL- 

 IPPINE ISLANDS. 



By Leoniiard Stejneger, 

 Curator, Division of Reptiles <nid lidtraehians, V. H. NaPional Museum. 



The genus Draco, which coiniititiites a very cliaracteristic part of the 

 Malayan element in the fauna of the Philippine Archipelago, has 

 hitherto been known to be represented there only by species hav- 

 ing the nostrils lateral and turned outward. It is therefore very 

 interesting to find in a shipment recently received from Dr. Edgar 

 A. ]\Iearns, U. S. Army, Avhose collecting has resulted in so many 

 important additions to the Philippine biota, two fine specimens of 

 a new species of Draco belonging to the other section of the genus 

 in which the nostrils are directed upward and perfectly vertical. 



DRACO MINDANENSIS, new species. 



Diagnosis. — Nostril directed upward, vertical; tympanum scaly; 

 head-scales subequal, without a Y-shaped series of scales on fore- 

 head ; hind leg when adpressed forward extending beyond axilla ; 

 wing membranes pale brown above, Avithout dark cross bands; male's 

 gular appendage, broad, triangular, slightly longer than length of 

 head. 



Hahitat. — Island of Mindanao, Philippine Archipelago. 



Type.— C'^i. No. 37388, U.S.N.M. ; Datu Anib's place, near Cata- 

 gan, northwest JNIindanao, at base of Malindang Mountain, 1,100 feet 

 altitude; May 11, 1906; Dr. E. A. Mearns, collector. 



Description of type specimen. — Adult male. Snout as ^ong as 

 diameter of orbit; rostral wide and low, more than twice as wide 

 as high, bordered behind by seven subequal, nearly regularly pen- 

 tagonal scales and slightly in contact with first supralabial; nostril 

 directed upward, perfectly vertical, separated from rostral by three 

 rows of scales and from supralabial by three or four scales; in- 

 terorbital space narrow ; scales on top of head small, more or less 

 keeled, with a slightly developed median series of larger, keeled scales 

 on top of snout, but without any posterior, diverging branches; about 

 five small scales in a line across the middle of the interorbital space 



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