OF TIIE MERGUI ARCHIPELAGO. 



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Order LACERTILIA. 



Family Geckonidje. 



Hemidactylus frenatus, SchJegel. 

 5 Mergui, and 6 Taing, King Island. 



Hemidactylus G-arxotii, Bum. Bibr. 

 3 Taing, King Island. 



G-ehyha mutilata, Wiegm. 



1 Mergui ; 1 King Island ; and 1 Sullivan Island. 

 The specimen from the last-mentioned locality was found on 

 rocks by the sea-shore. 



GrECKO TERTICILLATUS, Laur. 



10 Mergui. 



Common in the Archipelago. 



Family Agamidji, 

 Draco t^eniopterus, Gilntlier. 



3 Mergui; 19 King Island ; and 1 Elphinstone Island. 



Draco maculates, Gray. 

 3 Mergui. 



ACANTHOSAURA ARMATA, Gray. 



1 Sullivan Island. 



Found on swampy low-lying land on which Nipa fructicans 

 was growing. 



Acaxthosaura crucigera, BouJenger. 



1 female, Yimiki, King Island. 



Near a stream in an old clearing in the forest. 



Calotes versicolor, Baud. 



17 Mergui ; and 1 Timiki, King Island. 



Calotes Emma, Gray. 



3 Mergui ; 13 Taing, King Island ; 5 Elphiustone Island ; 

 and 3 Sullivan Island. 



Family Yaeanid^e. 

 Varan us salvator, Laur. 



2 Sullivan Island; 1 King Island ; 1 Elphinstone Island. 



One of these specimens was captured from my boat, in the 

 hollow stem of an old mangrove-tree up which the tide had risen 



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