REPTILES.

Lizards.—Iguana [182]
- Kabragoya, barbarous custom in preparing the cobra-tel poison (note) [183]
- The green calotes [184]
- Chameleon [184]
- Ceratophora [185]
- Geckoes,—their power of reproducing limbs [185], [186]
Crocodiles [186]
- Their power of burying themselves in the mud [187]
Tortoises—Curious parasite [188]
- Land tortoises [189]
- Edible turtle [190]
- Huge Indian tortoises (note) [190]
- Hawk's-bill turtle, barbarous mode of stripping it of the tortoise-shell [190]
Serpents.—Venomous species rare [191]
- Cobra de capello [192]
- Instance of land snakes found at sea [193]
- Tame snakes (note) [193]
- Singular tradition regarding the cobra de capello [194]
- Uropeltidæ.—New species discovered in Ceylon [195]
- Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello [195]
- Anecdotes of snakes [196]
- The Python [196]
- Water snakes [197]
- Snake stones [197]
- Analysis of one [199]
- Cæcilia [201]
- Large frogs [202]
- Tree frogs [202]
List of Ceylon reptiles [203]