NEW OR RARE PHILIPPINE REPTILES 
By Epwarp H. TAYLOR 
(From the Section of Ichthyology, Biological Laboratory, 
Bureau of Science, Manila) 
TWO PLATES AND FOUR TEXT FIGURES 
In this paper I am describing five new species of snakes and 
five new lizards from the Philippine Islands. One species is 
founded on specimens in the Bureau of Science collections, two 
on specimens in the Santo Tomas Museum of Manila, and the 
remainder on specimens in my own collections. 
The species described and their respective type localities are 
as follows: 
ae SNAKES 
Typhlops luzonensis. Mount Magquiling, Laguna, Luzon. 
Typhlops manilz. “Philippines.” 
Typhlops longicauda. Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao. 
Typhlops rugosa. Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao. 
Trimeresurus mcgregori. Batan Island, Batan Islands. 
LIZARDS 
Lepidodactylus naujanensis. Naujan Lake, Mindoro. 
Gekko mindorensis. Pocanil, Mindoro. 
Siaphos kempi. Naujan Lake, Mindoro. 
Sphenomorphus lednickyi. Aroroy, Masbate. 
Sphenomorphus lanosi. “Philippines.” 
SNAKES 
Typhlops luzonensis sp. nov. 
Type.—No. 109, E. H. Taylor collection; collected on Mount 
Maquiling, Laguna, Luzon, May 12, 1915, by E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type—Head rather flat, broader than neck, 
the lower jaw not or scarcely visible in lateral profile; snout 
rounded, projecting, rather truncate, the end only slightly less 
deep than head on a level with eyes; portion of rostral visible 
above much longer and a little wider than the part below, 
failing to reach the level of the eyes by a minute distance, and 
minutely less than one-half the width of head; prefrontal forming 
a suture with rostral little less than one-third its width, larger 
than frontal, its longest sutures with the supraoculars; frontal, 
the smallest upper head scale, forming equal sutures with inter- 
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