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Show 1897.] REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS OF CELEBES. 207 tf. ?. mm. mm. Total length 182 242 Head 13 16 Width of head 8-5 11 Body 49 60 Fore limb 29 32 Hind limb 35 41 Tail 120 166 14. DRACO BECCARII, Peters & Doria. (Plate IX.) Numerous specimens : Luhu, South Coast near Bonthain, Macassar. Kandari, S.E.Celebes (Beccarl). S. Celebes (Everett). Head small; snout as long as the orbit; nostrils lateral, directed outwards ; tympanum usually naked, rarely scaly ; parietal (pineal) foramen distinct. Upper head-scales very unequal, keeled ; 2 to 4 series of small scales along the interorbital region between the enlarged, strongly keeled supraoculars ; nasal shield separated from the rostral and from the first labial by two, rarely by one, series of scales ; 8 to 10 upper and as many lower labials. The male's gular appendage two-thirds to three-fourths the length of the head. A very slight nuchal crest. Dorsal scales subequal, more or less distinctly keeled, rarely nearly smooth, a little larger than the ventrals, which are strongly keeled ; no lateral series of enlarged scales. The fore limb stretched forward extends much beyond the tip of the snout; the hind limb reaches the axil or the shoulder. Pale greyish above, with brown marblings or wavy cross-bars ; black nuchal spot small or absent; female with black lines on the head, one of which passes through the eye and forms an angle on the occiput; sides of head, in the male, reticulated with dark grey ; gular appendage of male bright orange ; throat of female with black dots ; wing-membranes of male orange, rusty brown or grey at the base, blackish towards the outer border, with two or more large black spots above and usually one or two below the anterior border ; wing-membranes of female orange or yellow, spotted and dotted with black, with two to four black cross-bands on the outer portion and one or two black spots below, near the anterior border. 6- ?. mm. mm. Total length 205 217 Head 15 15 Width of head 9 10 Bodv 55 60 Fore limb 33 34 Hind limb 40 42 Tail 135 142 The specimens that have been referred to D. volans and D. maculatus will, on proper examination, probably turn out to belong to D. beccarii. |