106 BARBOUR — SOLOMON ISLAND REPTILES [^V^l^vlF' 



Tulagi. One specimen from each of the last two locaHties lacks 

 the very characteristic black blotch just aft of the fore limb, 

 on the side. In a specimen already in the Museum, from Bou- 

 gainville Island, this is replaced with several narrow oblique 

 black bars. 



Dasia smaragdinum perviridis subsp. nov. 



Type, M. C. Z., an adult from Fulakora, Ysabel Island, Solomons, col- 

 lected by Dr. W. M. Mann. 



Paratypes: five from New Georgia, two from Ysabel, one from Malaita, 

 and seven from Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz Archipelago. 



Similar to D. s. smaragdinum of Papua, but wholly brilUant 

 green throughout; not with a green head, and a body fading to 

 bronzy, or in alcohol to brownish, posteriorly. 



In 1912 I pointed out that this lizard was one of the few of 

 the widely distributed seines which had broken up into very 

 distinct geographical races, differing constantly and widely 

 from each other in pattern. I noticed this first while observing 

 the living specimens in the field in the Dutch East Indies. In 

 1915 Miss de Rooij in her ' Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archi- 

 pelago' (Vol. I, Leyden, 1915, p. 201) described and added the 

 race from Celebes, equally distinct. Unfortunately she gave this 

 a new name, celehense, although she mentioned having Oude- 

 mans' type of acutirostre from Saleyer, and that it represented 

 the very form she was naming. The races therefore should 

 stand: — 



Dasia smaragdinum smaragdinum (Lesson). Misol, Waigiu, 

 Papua, and perhaps New Britain and New Ireland, from which 

 last two islands I have not seen specimens. 



Dasia smaragdinum acutirostre (Oudemans). Celebes and the 

 surrounding islands. 



Dasia smaragdinum moluccarum Barbour. The Moluccas, 

 widespread. 



Dasia smaragdinum viridipunctum (Lesson). Pelew, Marshall 

 and Caroline Islands. 



Dasia smaragdinum perviridis Barbour. The Solomon Islands. 



