22,5 Taylor: Herpetologieal Fauna, III 529 



trees, as well as in human habitations. This is the only one 

 of the domestic geckos that I have found in numbers in forests 

 away from human habitations. I believe it one of the "abo- 

 riginal" species and not one whose arrival has depended on 

 its dispersal by man. 

 Cosymbotus platynrns (Schneider). 



Stellio platyurus Schneider, Amph. Phys. 2 (1792) 30. 

 Cosymbotus platyurus Taylor, Lizards of the Philippine Islands (1922) 

 59. 



Specimens were obtained from Jolo, Sibuyan, southern Ne- 

 gros, and Manila. The distribution is apparently not general 

 in the Philippines. In my ten years' collecting in the Islands 

 I have never encountered a specimen of this species in the 

 forest away from human habitation. 

 Lepidodactylus herrei sp. nov. 



T^/pe.— No. 480, Bureau of Science collection; collected March 

 14, 1922, at Luzurriaga, Oriental Negros, by Albert C. Herre. 



Description of type.— Snout long, rather conical; rostral low, 

 much broader than high, entering nostril, lowest medially; 

 rostral followed by a large rounded internasal which lies be- 

 tween posterior parts of rostral and supranasal; a second, very 

 small scale also joins rostral on the right side of the large scale ; 

 nostril surrounded by a supranasal, two postnasals first labial 

 and rostral; twelve upper labials; eleven lower labials; four 

 rows of rounded scales on chin, lying anterior to atoe drawn 

 across jaw between the sutures of third and fourth labial 

 mental distinct from labials; about thirty-two rows of longitu- 

 dinal granules cross snout in front of eye; granules on occiput 

 smaller than those on snout; much smaller than those on back, 

 scales on belly rounded, subimbricate, forming straight lon- 

 gitudinal lines; auricular opening small, rounded; preana 

 femoral pores large, in a continuous series, forming a medmn 

 curved arch, and then curving up on femur from the seventh 

 pore; nineteen pores on right side, twenty ™^>™*™™l 

 region the pore scales are followed by an angular^ series of 

 eight enlarged scales which are followed by *™ ^£^ 

 of scales that gradually diminish in size to ""J; .^^ 

 tubercles at base of tail; tail rounded above, flattened belov., 

 with a slight, nonserrate, ^^"J^^*^ 

 nidations not or scarcely evident, tne tip 01 uui 

 regenerated areas; twelve lamelte under longest finger, a sl.ght 



