Short Notes, 



Note on the occurrence in Selangor of three 

 Vertebrates new to the Malay Peninsula. 



Among zoologists at home one constantly hears the remark 

 that our knowledge of the vertebrate fauna of the Malay Pen- 

 insula must now be very nearly complete and that but few more 

 species can remain to be added to our lists. 



How wide this is of the true state of affairs is shewn by 

 the fact that within the last month, the Dyak Collector attached 

 to the Selangor Museum, has discovered two striking forms 

 which although previously known from Borneo have not hitherto 

 been recorded from the mainland of Asia. 



The species are : — 

 1. Draco maximus, Blgr. 



This fine species of flying lizard, the largest of the 

 genus, was originally described by Mr. Boulenger (P. Z. 

 S. 1893, p. 522, pi. xlii. fig. 1) from a single male specimen 

 collected by Mr. Hose on Mt. Dulit, Sarawak at a height 

 of 2000 feet. Specimens from the same locality and also 

 from Mts. Ma tang and Penrissen are in the Sarawak Mu- 

 seum and there is a single female in this Museum, collect- 

 ed at Balingean, some distance up the Sarawak River. 



Two individuals, male and female, were captured in 

 deep jungle about nine miles from Kuala Lumpor and 

 agree well with the original diagnosis and with the 

 above-mentioned specimen from Balingean. In the 

 freshly killed lizards the general colour above was moss- 

 green, pale yellowish beneath ; gular appendage of the 

 male dull terracotta, the lateral folds black, streaked with 

 white : in the female the appendage was very pale lemon 

 yellow, which rapidly faded into white Total length of 

 both specimens about 370 mm. 



Jour. S. B. R. A. Soc, No. U, 1905. 



