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with the type. The nasals are broadly separated in the eight 
specimens; the prefrontals are separated in seven, in contact in 
one; the frontoparietals are separated in the eight specimens, 
the parietals separated in seven, and forming a suture in one. 
Small nuchals are present in all the specimens. In a single 
specimen, the parietals are broken as shown in the drawing of a 
cotype.° 
Dibamus argenteus Taylor. Plate 4, fig. 2. 
Dibamus argenteus TaAyLor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 10 (1915) 107, 
pl. 1, figs. 11 and 12; Lizards of the Philippine Islands (1922) 261. 
Several specimens belonging to this species were collected on 
Basilan at Port Holland. Specimens were found under rotting 
logs in a cut-over area. All of the specimens show the irregular 
silver blotches on the body. I have already reported, in my 
work on the lizards of the Philippine Islands, the Negros and 
Papahag specimens that are listed in the table. 
Measurements and scale counts ~ Dibamus argenteus Taylor. 
Scales 
No. Locality. | Collector. | Sex. |Length | Tail. | Scale | Upper bordering|Length 
rietal. 
mm, mm, mm, 
| 1216_.....---| Port Hioll- | E.H.Taylor g 132 | 19.5 22 1 Bisjees 
and, Basi- 
| lan. 
REID. ucosts se CO see.) seaus Ge see g 126 18.5 22 1 © foscrccak 
$2002. Savi Ge sest | ated Gos ccu.s roy 88 | 13.0 22 1 6| 2 
Be As tates G0 pi cuclusee HO wens fof 123 19.0 22 1 6 3.6 
| pbs: aatesmpentace) OLN OO cci5.-[onkne pt ea ae rol 122 19.5 22 i 5 4.0 
ee 7s eee Negros ---.-.|----- d0icace: ¢ 154 | 28.0 22 1 Fae 
fo?” eras PapahagIs- |__--- Oe wicnd J 120| (2) 22 1 41 8.6 
land, Sulu. 
The limbs of this species appear to be larger and better de- 
veloped than in Dibamus novae-guineae Duméril and Bibron. 
In Boulenger’s illustration the limbs appear to be covered *° 
with one large terminal scale and a single pair of scales above or, 
at most, three scales. In my specimens the limb has a large, 
rather pointed, terminal scale with three or four pairs of smaller 
scales; the preanals, too, are different, consisting of two elongate 
scales separated by two or three scales, the tips of these over- 
lying a sharply pointed scale which lies directly on the edge of 
the anus. In the females the arrangement of the preanals is 
* Taylor, loc cit., fig. 10d. 
” Fauna Malay Peninsula; Rept. & Batr. (1912) ee 26 A and B. 
