B R E V I O R A Miiseiim of Comparative Zoology us ISSN 0006-9698 Cambridge, Mass. 21 October 1987 Number 488 A NEW FLYING LIZARD FROM THE SANGIHE ARCHIPELAGO, INDONESIA James D. Lazell, Jr.' Abstract. A new species of Draco, characterized by small size (to 75 mm SVL), reduced sexual dimorphism, somber coloration, five ribs in patagium, and eight to ten postrostrals, is described from Pulau Biaro, southernmost isle of Kepulauan Sangihe, ca 60 km north of the northeast tip of Minahasa, Sulawesi Utara. Spanning some 450 km between Sulawesi and Mindanao, form-ing the northwestern limit of the Molucca Sea, are more than 40 islands on 15 submarine banks. Those closest to Sulawesi are named for their largest member: Kepulauan Sangihe— the Sangihe Archipelago. The southernmost of these, some 60 km northeast of Ponto do Celebres, and about 25 km from the next nearest land (Ruang), is the isle of Biaro. Like its sisters, Biaro is of volcanic origin. I suspect it arose just where we find it today, did not drift there from somewhere else, and has never had any ter-restrial connection to any other land area. The flying lizards, genus Draco, recently have been reviewed by Musters (1983) and Inger (1983). Their views are disparate. Only Musters admits Draco in the Sangihe Archipelago. He says D. volans boschmai is "perhaps on the Kepulauan Sangihe." He examined no specimens from these islands and only one volans from Sulawesi (that from Macassar in the extreme southwest). ' Associate, Department of Herpetology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Har-vard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, and The Conservation Agen-cy, 6 Swinburne Street, Jamestown, Rhode Island 02835. MCZ OBT 1 i 1187
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