Cuar. 1X.] LIST OF REPTILES. 321 
toes are terminated by rounded discs which assist it in 
climbing, possesses, in a high degree, the faculty of 
changing its hues; and one as green as a leaf to-day, 
will be found grey and spotted like the bark to-morrow. 
One of these beautiful little creatures, which had seated 
itself on the gilt pillar of a lamp on my dinner-table, 
became in a few minutes scarcely distinguishable in 
colour from the or-molu ornament to which it clung. 
List of Ceylon Reptiles. 
I am indebted to Dr. Gray and Dr. Giinther, of the 
British Museum, for a list of the reptiles of Ceylon ; but 
many of those new to Europeans have been carefully 
described by the late Dr. Kelaart in his Prodromus 
Faune Zeylanice and its appendices, as well as in the 
13th vol. Magaz. Nat. Hist. (1854). 
SAURA. 
Hydrosaurus 
salyator, Wagler. 
Monitor 
dracena, Linn. 
Riopa 
ponetata, Linn. 
ardwickii, Gray. 
Brachymeles 
Bonite, Dum. & Bib. 
Tiliqua 
rufescens, Shaw. 
Eumeces 
Taprobanius, Kel. 
Nessia 
Burtoni, Gray. 
Acontias 
Layardi, Kelaart. 
Argyrophis 
bramicus, Daud. 
Lygosoma 
fallax, Peters. 
Rhinophis 
oxyrhynchus,Schn. 
punctatus, J. Miill. 
philippinus, J. Miill, 
nomolepis, Hemp. 
Planiceps: Peters 
lythii, Kelaart. 
melanogaster, Gray. 
Uropeltis 
grandis, Kelaart. 
saffragamus, Kelaart. 
Silybura 
Ceylonica, Cuv. 
Hemidactylus 
frenatus, Schlep. 
um. & 
Leschenaultii, 
Bib. 
trihedrus, Dawud. 
maculatus, Dum.& Bib. 
Piresii, Kelaart. 
Cocteei, Dum. & Bib. 
pustulatus, Dum. 
sublevis, Cantor. 
Peripia 
Peronii, Dum. & Bib. 
Gymnodactylus 
Kandianus, Kelaart. 
Sitana 
Ponticereana, Cuv. 
Lyriocephalus 
scutatus, Linn. 
Ceratophora 
Stoddartii, Gray, 
Tennentii, Giinther. 
Otocryptis 
bivittata, Wiegm. 
Salea Jerdoni, Gray. 
Calotes 
ophiomachus, Merr. 
nigrilabris, Peters. 
versicolor, Daud. 
Rouxii, Dum. & Bib. 
mystaceus, Dus. 
Chameleo 
vulgaris, Daud. 
Bs 
OPHIDIA, 
Megera 
trigonocephala, Latr. 
Trigonocephalus 
hypnalis, Merr. 
Daboia 
elegans, Daud. 
Pelamys 
bicolor, Daud, 
Aluria 
lapemoides, Gray. 
Hydrophis 
sublevis, Gray, 
cyanocinctus, Daud. 
Chersydrus 
granulatus, Schneid. 
Cerberus 
cinereus, Daud. 
Tropidophis 
schistosus, Daud. 
Python 
reticulatus, Gray. 
Cylindrophis 
rufa, Schneid. 
maculata, Linn. 
Aspidura 
brachyorrhos, Bote, 
trachyprocta, Cope. 
Haplocercus 
Ceylonensis, Giinth. 
Oligodon 
subquadratus, Dum, & 
“Bib. 
