1. DRACO. 269 



Body 62 millim. 



Fore limb 33 „ 



Hind limb 42 „ 



Tail 122 „ 



Malabar; Cochin; Travancore. 



a-b. S 2 ■ India. 



c-^- d" 2 , bad state. Madras. - J. E. Boileau, Esq. [P.]. 



fi-i- 6 2 ' Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



20. Draco taeniopterus. 



Draco tseniopterus, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 187, and Hept. 

 Brit. Ind, p. 126, pi. xiii. fig. E. 



Head small ; snout as long as the diameter of the orbit ; nostril 

 directed upwards, perfectly vertical ; tympanum naked, smaller 

 than the eye-opening. Upper head-scales unequal, strongly keeled : 

 six to nine upper labials. The male's gular appendage slightly longer 

 than the head, covered with very large scales. Male with a slight 

 nuchal fold. Dorsal scales equal, very feebly keeled, not larger than 

 ventrals ; a more or less distinct lateral series of enlarged keeled 

 distant scales. The fore limb stretched forwards extends consider- 

 ably beyond the tip of the snout ; the adpressed hind limb reaches 

 beyond the axil. Greyish or brownish above, with metallic gloss, 

 without distinct spots ; wing-membranes above with five arched 

 transverse black bands, about as wide as the interspaces between 

 them ; some of these bands may be forked at the base or enclose 

 large light spots ; wing-membraues inferiorly uniform. 



Total length 206 miUim. 



Heiid 14 „ 



Width of head 10 „ 



Body 57 „ 



Fore limb 38 „ 



Hind limb 45 „ 



Tail 135 „ 



Siam and Tenasserim. 



a. S • Chartaboum, Siam. M. Mouhot [C.]. (Type.) 



h. Yg. Tenasserim. Dr. Packman. 



c. $ . Tavoy. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



21. Draco quinquefasciatus. (Pla.xe XX. fig. 8, the head.) 



Dracunculus quinquefasciatus, Gray, Cat. p. 235. 

 Draco quinquefasciatus, Gray, Zool. Journ. iii. 1827, p. 219, and in 

 Hardw. III. Ind. Zool. ; thim. 8f Bibr. iv. p. 455 ; Gunth. Rept. 

 Brit. Ind. p. 126 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 1873, 

 p. 118. 



Head small ; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit ; nostril 



