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Show 1893.] REPTILES A N D BATRACHIANS P R O M BORNEO. 523 scales; head-scales very small; ten granular scales across of interorbital region, sixteen or seventeen across supraocular region; a J^-shaped series of enlarged scales on the forehead; fourteen upper labials. The male's gular appendage once and a half the length of the head, with moderate-sized' scales on its distal portion. A slight nuchal fold, but no crest. Dorsal scales equal, keeled, a little smaller than ventrals ; four widely separated, enlarged, erect, keeled scales on each side of the back. The fore limb extends beyond the tip of the snout, the hind limb to the axilla. Greyish above, head speckled with black ; wing-membranes black above with light longitudinal streaks, colourless beneath ; throat blackish, with round white spots. millim. Total length 365 Head 25 Width of head 17 Body 115 Fore limb 58 Hind limb 70 Tail 225 A single male specimen from Mt. Dulit, 2000 feet (Hose). DRACO MICROLEPIS. (Plate XLII. fig. 2.) Head small; snout slightly shorter than the diameter of the orbit: nostril directed upwards, perfectly vertical; tympanum naked, smaller than the eye-opening; head-scales very small; six or seven scales across middle of interorbital region, fourteen or fifteen across supraocular region; scales on upper surface of snout subequal; fourteen upper labials. The male's gular appendage as long as the head, with moderate-sized scales. No nuchal fold or crest. Dorsal scales equal, keeled, a little smaller than ventrals; a few widely separated, enlarged, keeled scales on each side. The fore limb reaches with the whole hand beyond the tip of the snout, the hind limb to the shoulder. Pale grey-brown above, with dark spots and marblings; wing-membranes above with black marblings forming five rather ill-defined transverse bands, beneath colourless ; base of gular appendage and inner surface of lateral wattles purplish red; a large black spot on each side of the gular appendage in the male. millim. Total length 218 Head ; 15 Width of head 9 Body 63 Pore limb 38 Hind limb 47 Tail 140 • Two specimens, male and female, from Merabah, North Borneo (Everett). |
