Chap. IX.] 



LIST OF REPTILES. 



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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. Grunther, 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 

 Faunae Zeylanicce and its appendices, as well as in the 

 13th vol. Magaz. Nat. Hist. (1854). 



Hydrosaurus 



salvator, Wagler. 

 Monitor 



dracaena, Linn. 

 Riopa 



punctata, Linn. 



Hardwickii, Gray. 

 Brachymeles 



Bonitse, Bum. 8f Bib. 

 Tiliqua 



rufescens, Shaw. 

 Eumeces 



Taprobanius, Kel. 

 Nessia 



Burtoni, Gray. 

 Acontias 



Layardi, Kelaart. 

 Argyrophis 



bramicus, Baud. 

 Lygosoma 



fallax, Peters. 

 Rhinophis 



oxyrhynchus,Scfoi. 



punctatus, J. Mull. 



philippinus, J. Mull. 



homolepis, Hempi\ 



planiceps, Peters 



Blythii, Kelaart. 



melanogaster, Gray. 

 Uropeltis 



grandis, Kelaart. 



saffragamus, Kelaart. 



Silybura 



Ceylonica, Cuv. 

 Hemidactylus 



frenatus, Schleg. 



Leschenaultii, Bum. & 

 Bib. 



trihedrus, Baud. 



maculatus, Dum.fy Bib. 



Piresii, Kelaart. ] 



Coctcei, Bum. Sf Bib. 



pustulatus, Bum. 



sublasvis, Cantor. 

 Peripia 



Peronii, Bum. Bib. 

 Gymnodactylus 



Kandianus, Kelaart. 

 Sitana 



Ponticereana, Cuv. 

 Lyriocephalus 



scutatus, Linn. 

 Ceratophora 



Stoddartii, Gray. 



Tennentii, Gunther. 

 Otocryptis 



bivittata, Wiegm. 

 Salea Jerdoni, Gray. 

 Calotes 



ophiomachus, Merr. 



nigrilabris, Peters. 



versicolor, Baud. 



Rouxii, Bum. $ Bib. 



mystaceus, Bum. 

 Chameleo 



vulgaris, Baud. 



OPHIDIA. 



Megaera 



trigonocephala, Latr. 

 Trigonocephalus 



hypnalis, Merr. 

 Daboia 



elegans, Baud. 

 Pelamys 



bicolor, Baud. 

 Aturia 



lapemoides, Gray. 

 Hydrophis 



sublsevis, Gray, 



cyanocinctus, Baud. 

 Chersydrus 



granulatus, Schneid. 

 Cerberus 



cinereus, Baud. 

 Tropidophis 



schistosus, Baud. 

 Python 



reticulatus, Gray. 

 Cylindrophis 



rufa, Schneid. 



maculata, Linn. 

 Aspidura 



brachyorrhos, Boie. 



trachyprocta, Cope. 

 Haplocercus 



Ceylonensis, Gunth. 

 Oligodon 



subquadratus, Bum. & 

 Bib. 



