DRACO 123 



SO densely spotted with brown spots that the ground color ap- 

 pears brown reticulated with light, below with numerous brown 

 spots. One male specimen examined, Bureau of Science spec- 

 imen No. 817; from Siquijor? 



There are three female specimens which I am unable to as- 

 sociate positively with these groups ; they very probably belong 

 to either the third or fourth. Two specimens from northern 

 Negros have the head very large, one with a Y-shaped, the other 

 with a longitudinal, series of scales on forehead; wing mem- 

 branes black-brown reticulated with whitish; below with one 

 or two small spots on outer edge. 



A specimen from southern Negros has the longitudinal row 

 of scales on snout, the wing membranes black with indistinct 

 lighter markings arranged in curved transverse series, and is 

 spotted below with black along the outer border. The scales on 

 the back in each of the three specimens are rather dimly keeled 

 and not enlarged, and there is a row of small keeled scales on 

 the sides. 



A fourth female which may represent a fifth group, has the 

 wing membranes black, with fine whitish striations and lighter 

 spots visible when held to the light; below are numerous black 

 spots; the scales are nearly smooth above. The tympanum is 

 scaled. (No. 396 E. H. Taylor collection. Locality unknown.) 



Remarks. — It is highly probable that with additional material 

 it will be possible to relegate certain of these forms to species 

 or subspecies. This does not seem feasible at the present time. 



The species is known from Negros, Mindoro, Lubang, and 

 central Luzon. 



DRACO QUADRASI Boettger 



Plate 8, figs. 1 and 2 



Draco quadrasi BoETTGER, Kat. Senckenb. Mus. (1893) 94; Werner, 

 Mitt. Natur. Mus. Hamburg; Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 

 (1894) 773. 



Description of species. — (From Nos. 1816 and 1818, E. H. 

 Taylor collection; collected in Sibuyan, by C. M. Weber.) 

 (Adult male.) Head moderate, similar to Draco spilopterus, 

 the snout equal or nearly equal to diameter of eye ; rostral rather 

 large, bordered by eight scales, separated from nostril by two 

 scales; nostril points outward and upward, and slightly back- 

 ward; a Y-shaped series of enlarged irregular scales on snout; 

 canthus rostralis rugged ; scales on head very irregular, strongly 

 keeled ; a scale on posterior part of orbit slightly prominent ; no 

 compressed spinelike scale on superciliary edge but, instead, a 



