DRACO • 113 



on each side, separated in the widest part by twenty-four scale 

 rows; nuchal crest strongly developed; a small lateral nuchal 

 crest and a series of four enlarged scales above and behind 

 tympanum; a single conical scale behind temporal region; legs 

 short ; hind leg brought forward fails to reach elbow of adpressed 

 foreleg. 



Color in life. — Ground color above metallic brown, mixed with 

 a lighter brown; two or three indistinct narrow light bands 

 across back, that on shoulder distinct ; a few other small whitish 

 dots on back and on inner margin of wings ; snout and neck dark 

 brown; the nuchal crest blue; wing membranes brownjsh with 

 minute lighter scales, and five large elongate blotches of yellow- 

 ish green between ribs (ultramarine in alcohol). A white line 

 below orbit; a small white spot in front of tympanum; throat 

 and neck variegated brown reticulated with whitish; gular 

 appendage purplish brown, the tip orange, reticulated with brown 

 at base ; lateral gular appendages reticulaited with darker brown ; 

 tail annulate ; underwing membranes with slightly darker spots ; 

 belly densely spotted brown. 



Measurements of Draco everetti Boulenger, male and female. 



Total length 



Tail 



Snout to vent 



Snout to foreleg 



Axilla to groin 



Foreleg 



Hind leg 



Width of head 



Length of head 



Gular appendage 



Variation. — A second specimen in the collection agrees better 

 with Boulenger's type description as regards color. It is a 

 female and differs markedly from the color description given 

 here for the male. A description follows: A metallic bluish 

 gray above with a faint suggestion of three lighter bands cross- 

 ing back. No light spots on back ; wing membranes with minute 

 white scales in lines, along the ribs; on the inner third, large 

 irregular blotches of bluish color surrounded by black between 

 the ribs; throat and sides of neck light, very dimly reticulated 

 with dark; below, wing membranes distinctly spotted with 

 scattered blackish spots; a slight nuchal spot present, the 

 interorbital spot distinct, with the brown on snout arranged 

 in bands. Excepting sexual differences they agree very well in 



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Male. 



Female. 



mm. 



mm. 



184 



184 



110 



109 



74 



75 



24 



24 



43 



42 



26 



28 



33 



35 



10 



10 



15 



16 



21 





