18/3.] FBOM CELEBES AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 167 



lines. 



Distance between snout and vent 17 



„ „ and fore leg 7 



Length of fore leg 5 



„ hind leg 7 



COPHOSCINCUS SUBVITTATUS. 



Scales smooth ; supranasal shields none ; lower eyelid with a trans- 

 parent disk; ear-opening hidden, but distinctly indicated by a sunken 

 place. 



Snout pointed, not produced or depressed. Vertical bell-shaped, 

 in contact with the praefrontal. Scales in twenty-two longitudinal 

 series, of which the two middle on the back are very broad, nearly 

 twice as broad as the adjoining series ; and the latter, again, are 

 twice as broad as the next outer ones. There are forty scales in a 

 longitudinal series between the axil of the fore leg and the vent. Two 

 large prseanal scales. A broad bluish-white band runs along the 

 middle of the back from the snout, and appears to be continued on 

 the tail ; it is bordered on each side by a narrower black band, which 

 becomes indistinct in the posterior half of the trunk. Along the 

 side of the head and neck there is another similar white and black 

 band, the white band proceeding from the supraciliary edge, but this 

 band is lost behind the shoulder. Sides of the body and lower parts 

 whitish, immaculate. Legs with very faint brownish dots. 



A single specimen was obtained by Dr. Meyer at Manado : it had 

 lost its tail ; and only a short portion is reproduced. 



lines. 



Distance between snout and vent 18 



fore leg 6| 



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Length of fore leg 4| 



Length of hind leg 6| 



Draco ornatus, Gray. 



In the ' Reptiles of British India,' I have identified Gray's Draco 

 ornatus with D. spilopterus of Wiegmann. This is so far correct, that 

 the adult male specimen (Cat. Lizards, p. 235, spec, c) is really 

 of Wiegmann's species ; but the others (specimens «, b, d) belong to 

 a really distinct species, for which the name proposed by Gray must 

 be retained. This species is most closely allied to, and may be re- 

 garded as the Philippine representative of, Draco volans ; but the 

 tympanum is covered with scales. D. ornatus is distinguished from 

 1). spilopterus by the different coloration of the lower surface of the 

 wings, which have some more or less confluent large black blotches, 

 whilst in D. spilopterus the spots are small and scattered. 



Draco spilonotus, Gthr. 



By inadvertence this species was described in the text of Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 592, under the name of Draco spilopterus, whilst 

 the correct name {Draco spilonotus) was used on pi. 35. 



