288 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Indian and Malayan 



llie eye and is continued along the side of the back to the 

 root of the tail, where it joins that of the other side ; it is 

 broadly edged with brownish black above and below, the 

 edges being interrupted and more indistinct in the posterior 

 half of the length of the body. Throat finely speckled with 

 black ; lower parts of the body uniform whitish. 



1'otal length 53 millim., the tail measuring 23 millim. 



XXXIV. — On neic or little-hnoion Indiaii and Malayan 

 Reptiles and BatracJnans. By G. A. Boulenger. 



Draco quinquefasciatuSj Gray. 



This beautiful lizard was described in 1827 from a single 

 male specimen from Penang. A second specimen, likewise 

 a male, from the same locality, was recorded by Stoliczka in 

 1873. The British Museum has now received a female 

 specimen obtained on Mount Dulit, Borneo, by Mr. C. Hose. 



Apham'otis acutirostris^ Modigliani. 



A specimen from Western Borneo, presented to the British 

 Museum by Iklr. J. Deby, has all the characters of this species, 

 recently distinguished from Peters's A. fusca. 



Calotes andamanensis, sp. n. 



Upper head- scales moderate, subcqual, obtusely keeled ; 

 tympanum not quite half the diameter of the orbit. An 

 oblique, curved fold in front of the shoulder. Nuchal crest 

 well developed, composed of erect spines, the longest of which 

 equal the diameter of the tympanum ; dorsal crest a mere 

 denticulate ridge. Sixty-three scales round the middle of 

 the body ; dorsal scales larger than ventrals, very feebly 

 keeled, nearly smooth, the upper pointing upwards, the lower 

 pointing downwards; ventral scales strongly keeled and 

 larger than the gulars. The adpressed hind limb reaches tiie 

 eye; third and fourth fingers equal, as long as the fifth toe. 

 Tail feebly compressed at the base, with i-light upjier ridge. 

 Green above, with whitish spots on the body; tail with 

 blaekisii aniiuli. 



