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Show 956 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON REPTILES, [N Fig. 21, Perca fluviati lis, p. 950. 22. Zeusfaber, p. 950. 23. Anarrhichas lupus, p. 950. 24. Labrus maculatus, p. 951. 25. Exocoztus brachysoma, p. 951. PLATE LXV. Fig. 26. Lophius piscatorius, p. 951. 27. Coitus scorpio, p. 951. 28. Trigla cuculus, p. 951. 29. Cyclopterus lumpus, p. 951. 30. Fistularia tabaccaria, p. 952. 31. Saccobranchus fossilis, p. 952. 32. Silurus ylanis, p. 952. 33. Syngnathus acus, p. 95*2. 34. Gadus aglfienus, p. 952. 35. Blennius pholis, p. 953. 36. Orthagoriscus truncatus, p. 953. 37. Tetrodon palembangensis, p. 953. 4. On the Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead in the Interior of Hainan. By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. [Eeceived October 31, 1899.] (Plates LXVI.-LXIX.) During his short stay in Hainan, where he died on June 2 of the present year, M r . John Whitehead had succeeded in collecting a small number of cold-blooded vertebrates in the Five-finger Mountains, in the interior of the island. The fact that so many of the few species represented in the collection are new, tends to show how rich a harvest these unexplored mountains would have yielded but for the fatal climate which has deprived the zoological world of one of its most enthusiastic and successful members. REPTILES. 1. DRACO WHITEHEADI, sp. n. (Plate LNVI. fig. 1.) Head small; snout considerably longer than the diameter of the orbit; nostril lateral, directed outwards ; tympanum scaly. Upper head-seales unequal, strongly keeled ; 8 or 9 upper labials. Male's gular appendage very large, once and a half as long as the head. A rudimentary nuchal crest. Dorsal scales a little larger than ventrals, irregular, obtusely keeled ; on each side of the back a series of enlarged, keeled dorsal scales. The fore limb stretched forward reaches the tip of the snout, the hind limb between the elbow and the axilla. Reddish brown above, with dark transverse |