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upper labials, twelve lower. The last three upper labials are 
very small and indistinct. 
The specimen was collected under loose bark on a large forest 
tree. No other specimen was seen. When first collected the 
color above was dark olive, the belly yellow. A bright golden, 
black-edged line, extending from the eye to above the auricular 
opening, is dimly evident in the loreal region. No marking was 
discernible on the back. The tail is colored like the body, with a 
few indistinct darker marks. 
Sphenomorphus luzonensis (Boulenger). 
Lygosoma luzonense BOULENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1894) 733, 
pl. 49, fig. 2; TAyLor, Lizards of the Philippine Islands (1922) 
175, pl. 15, fig. 1. 
A good series of this small Sphenomorphus was collected 
along the small brooks in the neighborhood of Balbalan, Kalinga. 
The specimens were always found in the immediate vicinity 
of water, and when disturbed they would take refuge by diving 
in the water and concealing themselves under rocks or débris at 
the bottom. Several of the specimens are females containing 
partially developed eggs. 
Color in life—No. 734, the largest specimen taken (101 mil- 
limeters), is brown above; median line deep chocolate with 
ill-defined bluish white spots; a broad chocolate lateral stripe, 
edged above and below with rows of black and bluish white, ill- 
defined spots; sides, below the chocolate stripe, salmon to orange 
with white flecks; backward from the arms the breast and belly 
are deep orange, more pronounced posteriorly; basal part of 
tail deep orange, verging into flesh color toward tip. Chin, 
flesh color to white, flecked with darker. Most of the specimens 
have the same color and marking. The orange on the belly is 
usually well pronounced in adults. 
Sphenomorphus beyeri sp. nov. 
Type.—No. 17, E. H. Taylor collection; collected May 31, 1920, 
on Mount Banahao, Laguna Province, Luzon, elevation about 
1,500 meters, by E. H. Taylor. _ 
Description of type.—Rostral large, clearly visible above, form- 
ing a strongly curved suture with the frontonasal; latter wider 
than long, very narrow laterally, touching first superior loreal, 
forming a short curved suture with the frontal; prefrontals mod- 
erately large, separated, touching two superior loreals, first 
superciliary, and first supraocular; frontal generally triangular, 
much longer than wide, very strongly narrowed behind to a 
point, leaving interorbital region extremely narrow; frontoparie- 
