FASCICULI MALATENSES 
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in Java, F. H. Bauer* found that it lasted from November to May ; specimens 
obtained by ourselves in May, in which the embryos were already far advanced, 
hatched a month later, and we found others, some advanced and some in an 
early stage of development, in September, When the young geckos emerged 
they were covered with a delicate membrane, which they cast immediately, 
rubbing it off against sticks and pulling it from the hind limbs with their 
mouths, and then devouring it. One specimen was kept alive for about a 
fortnight, during which it evinced not the slightest tendency to make use of 
the fold of skin along its side as a parachute. Indeed, this fold, except when 
accidentally displaced by coming in contact with some foreign substance, was 
always kept closely tucked round the body, so that it was hardly apparent. 
The young gecko, which was coloured so as to exactly resemble the bark of a 
tree, was slightly darker by night than by day, a white bar across the tail 
becoming more conspicuous in the evening ; otherwise the colour changed very 
little.’ 
AGAMIDAE 
25. Draco fimbriatus, Kuhl. 
Sungkei, South Perak, and Semangko Pass (2,700 feet), Selangor-Pahang boundary. 
‘ General colour above greyish, brown on head and neck, with irregular 
spots of black, tail banded with blackish brown and clay colour ; lower surface 
of body uniform dirty grey, chin dusky grey, spotted with black and white on 
jaws, gular pouch salmon pink, lateral folds more orange.’ 
26. Draco punctatus, Blgr. 
(PI. X, fig-. I) 
Head rather large ; snout as long as the diameter of the orbit ; nostril 
lateral, directed upwards ; tympanum naked, nearly as large as the eye-opening. 
Upper head-scales small, keeled ; a distinct J^-shaped series of enlarged scales 
on the forehead ; a conical, spine-like tubercle at the posterior corner of the 
orbit and another in front of it ; ten upper labials. The male’s gular appendage 
hardly as long as the head. A short and strong denticulate nuchal fold. 
Dorsal scales a little smaller than ventrals, feebly keeled ; a lateral series of 
enlarged scales. The fore limb stretched forwards extends a little beyond the 
tip of the snout ; the adpressed hind limb barely reaches the axil. Tail with 
a very strong crest of long pointed scales. ‘ Greyish above, tinged with rusty 
on the crown and on the middle line of the back, with numerous small black 
spots ; four large dark blotches forming a cross between the shoulders ; alar 
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. Gadow’s Amphibia and Reptiles^ P* 5^2 
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