REPTILES.

Lizards.—Iguana [271]
- Kabara-goya, barbarous custom in preparing the kabara-tel poison [272]
- Blood-suckers [275]
- The green calotes [276]
- The lyre-headed lizard [277]
- Chameleon [278]
- Ceratophora [279]
- Geckoes,—their power of reproducing limbs [281]
Crocodiles [282]
- Their sensitiveness to tickling [285]
- Anecdotes of crocodiles [286]
- Their power of burying themselves in the mud [286]
Tortoises.—Curious parasite [289]x
- Terrapins [290]
- Edible turtle [291]
- Cruel mode of cutting it up alive [291]
- Huge Indian tortoises (note) [293]
- Hawk's-bill turtle, barbarous mode of stripping it of the tortoise-shell [293]
Serpents.—Venomous species rare [294]
- Tic polonga and carawala [296]
- Cobra de capello [297]
- Tame snakes (note) [298]
- Anecdotes of the cobra de capello [298]
- Legends concerning it [299]
- Instance of land snakes found at sea [300]
- Singular tradition regarding the robra de capello [300]
- Uropeltidæ.—New species discovered in Ceylon [302]
- Buddhist veneration for the cobra de capello [303]
- The Python [303]
- Tree snakes [305]
- Water snakes [306]
- Sea snakes [306]
- Snake stones [312]
- Analysis of one [315]
- Cæcilia [317]
- Frogs [317]
- Tree frogs [320]
List of Ceylon reptiles [321]