802 EEPTILIA. 



Gecho caracal, Tytler, I. c, p. 547. 



Hemidacti/lus sublcevis, Theobald^ Journ. As. Soc.^ Bengal^ vol. xxxvii^ ex. No._, p. 80. 



? HemidactylMs punctatus, Jerdon^ Journ. As. Soc, Bengal^ vol. xxii^ 1853^ p. 467. 



Three females and two males, all from Bliam6, have the sacral region, sides, and 

 upper surface of the tail with a few scattered flattened enlarged tuhercles, more 

 numerous in the two first regions in some specimens, than in others. The upper 

 surface of the tail is marked by a number of verticils, each of which bears about six 

 of these tubercles, the most external of which is somewhat spinose. In the reproduced 

 tail, this verticillate arrangement more or less disappears, and it is smooth laterally 

 and superiorly. The under surface is clad with enlarged plates, and the tail is some- 

 what depressed and tapers to a very fine point. All the upper parts are finely gra- 

 nular. Porty to forty-three longitudinal rows of scales on the belly. The femoral 

 pores number 32, interrupted in the mesial line by a small scale in one speci- 

 men, but continuous in the other male. A mesial patch of enlarged preanal scales. 

 The thumb and inner toe small, especially the latter, on which the small claw is 

 distinctly present in all the specimens. The upper labials vary from 11 to 12, and 

 the lower, from 8 to 9. The two pairs of enlarged shields behind the mental are very 

 persistent. The coloration is variable, as some are uniformly coloured olive- grey 

 above, and in these there is no band through the eye ; whilst others are much darker 

 and marbled with blackish, and in these the band through the eye is present. 



The intestine of the species is provided with a distinct csecal enlargement, at 

 the commencement of the large intestine, which is less than one-third the length of 

 the small intestine which equals the distance between the snout and vent. The 

 stomach of one male w^as filled with the elytra of a small beetle. 



This species I found only on trees, and usually huddled together in little groups 

 of three or four of different ages in crevices of the bark. 



The distribution of this species is very extensive, as it has been recorded from 

 Ceylon, Bengal, Assam, Burma, the Andamans and Nicobars, the Malayan Peninsula 

 and Archipelago, Siam and Cochin China ; and Peters records it from the Seychelles. 



ACtAMID^. 



Genus Draco, Linn. 

 Draco maculatus. Gray. 



Bracunculus maculatus, Gray, Cat. Lizards^ B. M., 1845^ p. 236. 



Braco maculatus, Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 1847, vol. xvi, p. 645 ; Giinther^ Bept., Brit, 



Ind., 1864, p. 125, pi. xiii, c; Theobald, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 1868, vol. xxxvii, Suppl. No. 



p. 34; Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. x, 1868, p. 33 ; Descr. Cat. Kept. Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 97. 



' Two examples of this species were caught at Ponsee, one of them in an insect net, 

 while in the act of springing from tree to tree, across a thickly wooded hill tract. 



The specimens which I have examined from Pegu are smaller than Assam and 

 Yunnan individuals, but I do not observe that they differ in any other respect from 

 tlie types with which I have compared the latter. 



