806 EEPTILIA. 



This is a common species in the neighbourhood of Mandalay. It appears to 

 be an essentially Malayan form, spreading from Siam westwards to the Garo Hills 

 and occurring also in the Nicobars. Its existence in Ceylon is doubtful : but Kelaart 

 forwarded what he believed to be a specimen to the Indian Museum, Calcutta. I 

 have, however, not been able to identify it. Perguson includes this species in his 

 recent work, " The Eeptile Fauna of Ceylon," but mentions that he has never 

 been able to procure a specimen. 



Calotes maeia. Gray. 



Calotes maria, Gray, Cat. Lizards, B. M., 1845, p. 243; Giintlier, Kept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 144; 



id., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 778, pi. xlv, fig. B. ; Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc, Bengal, 1870, p. 77; 



Theobald, Descr., Cat. Kept. Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 108. 

 Calotes platyceps, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxi, 1852, p. 354 ; id., op. cit., vol. xxii, 1853, 



p. 650 ; Blyth, Kelaart, Prod. Faunae Zeylan., 1852, app. p. 43 ; Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 



1843, p. 143, nota. 



These specimens conform to the types of the species with which they have 

 been compared. 



The occurrence of this lizard, in the district of Teng-yue-chow (Momien) which 

 is remarkably deficient in trees, would seem to indicate that the species is not so 

 arboreal as its allies (7. versicolor and C. emma. 



Calotes emma, Gray. 



Calotes emma, Gray, Cat. Liz., 1845, p. 244; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxii, 1853, p. 413, 

 App. p. 647; Gtinth., Rept, B. Ind., 1864, p. 144; Theobald, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 1868, 

 vol. xxxvii, extra No., p. 36 ; Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. x, 1868, p. 33; Descr., Cat. Kept. Brit. 

 Ind., 1876, p. 108; Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc, Bengal, 1870, p. 77. 



In the specimens of this species, which were obtained by me, the spines on the 

 head are not so strongly developed as in the type, but all the other characters are 

 well marked. 



Length of body 4-75, length of tail 10-25. 



This species has been recorded from the Khasia Hills, Assam, Pegu, Mergui, and 

 Tenasserim, and the subjects of this notice were caught at an elevation of 3,000 feet, 

 on the Kakhyen Hills. 



Oriocalotes, Giinther. 

 Oriocalotes kakhienensis, n. s. Plate LXXVI, fig. 1. 



This essentially arboreal lizard was captured at Ponsee. 



The head is covered with obtusely keeled scales of different sizes, a few large 

 scales occurring near the front of the snout, and on the superciliary ridges and 

 occiput. No spines on the head as in 0. minor. An obscure rounded ridge runs 



