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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
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Draco (18 sp.), the Oriental region, excluding Ceylon ; 
Otocryptis (4 sp.), Ceylon, North India, Malaya; Ceratophora (3 
sp.), Ceylon ; Gonyocephalus (8 sp.), Papuan Islands, Java, Borneo, 
Pelew Islands; Dilophyrm (7 sp.), Indo-Malaya and Siam; 
Japalura (6 sp.), Himalayas/Borneo, Formosa, and Loo Choo 
Islands ; Sitana (2 sp.), Central and South India and Ceylon ; 
Bronchocela (3 sp.), Indo-Malaya, Cambodja, and Celebes ; 
Calotes (12 sp.), Continental India to China, Philippine Islands ; 
Oriocalotes (2 sp.), Himalayas; Acanthosaura (5 sp.), Malacca 
and Siam; Tiaris (3 sp.), Andaman Islands, Borneo, Philip- 
pine and Papuan Islands; Phydgnathus (3 sp.), Cochin-China 
and Australia ; Uromastix (5 sp.), South Kussia, North Africa, 
Central India ; Stellio (5 sp.), Caucasus and Greece to Arabia, 
High Himalayas and Central India ; Trapdus (5 sp.), Tartary, 
Egypt, and Afghanistan ; Phrynocephalus (10 sp.), Tartary and 
Mongolia, Persia and Afghanistan; Lophura (2 sp.), Amboyna 
and Pelew Islands; Grammatophorus (14 sp.), Australia and 
Tasmania ; Agama (14 sp.), North Africa to the Punjaub, South 
Africa. The remaining genera each consist of a single species. 
Eight are peculiar to Australia, one to the Fiji Islands, one to the 
Aru Islands, three to Ceylon, five to other parts of the Oriental 
region, one to Persia, and one to South Kussia. 
Family 52. — CHAMJELEONIDJE. (1 Genus, 30 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical I 
Sub- regions. | 
Ne ARCTIC 1 
S UB-REGION9. | 
PAL.EARCTIG 
Sub- regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-region h. 
Oriental 
S UB-REQIONS. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Chamseleons are an almost exclusively Ethiopian group, 
only one species, the common Chamseleon, inhabiting North 
Africa and Western Asia as far as Central India and Ceylon. 
They abound all over Africa, and peculiar species are found in 
Madagascar and Bourbon, as well as in the Island of Fer- 
nando Po. 
