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Show 1873.] FROM CELEBES AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 167 lines. Distance between snout and vent 17 „ „ „ and fore leg 7 Length of fore leg 5 „ hind leg 7 COPHOSCINCUS SUBVITTATUS. Scales smooth ; supranasal shields none ; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; ear-opening hidden, but distinctly indicated by a sunken place. Snout pointed, not produced or depressed. Vertical bell-shaped, in contact with the praefrontal. Scales in twenty-two longitudinal series, of which the two middle on the back are very broad, nearly twice as broad as the adjoining series; and the latter, again, are twice as broad as the next outer ones. There are forty scales in a longitudinal series between the axil of the fore leg and the vent. Two large praeanal scales. A broad bluish-white band runs along the middle of the back from the snout, and appears to be continued on the tail; it is bordered on each side by a narrower black band, which becomes indistinct in the posterior half of the trunk. Along the side of the head and neck there is another similar white and black band, the white band proceeding from the supraciliary edge, but this band is lost behind the shoulder. Sides of the body and lower parts whitish, immaculate. Legs with very faint brownish dots. A single specimen was obtained by Dr. Meyer at Manado: it had lost its tail; and only a short poition is reproduced. linea. Distance between snout and vent 18 ,y ,. „ „ fore leg 6| Length of fore leg 4| Length of hind leg 6| DRACO ORNATUS, Gray. In the ' Reptiles of British India,' I have identified Gray's Draco ornatus with D. spilopterus of Wiegmann. This is so far correct, that the adult male specimen (Cat. Lizards, p. 235, spec, c) is really of Wiegmann's species ; but tbe others (specimens a, b, d) belong to a really distinct species, for which the name proposed by Gray must be retained. This species is most closely allied to, and may be regarded as the Philippine representative of, Draco volans; but the tympanum is covered with scales. D. ornatus is distinguished from D. spilopterus by the different coloration of the lower surface of the wings, which have some more or less confluent large black blotches, whilst in D. spilopterus the spots are small and scattered. DRACO SPILONOTUS, Gthr. By inadvertence this species was described in the text of Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 592, under the name of Draco spilopterus, whilst the correct name (Draco spilonotus) was used on pl. 3o. |