22,5 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, III 533 



wider than first pair, separated by a single scale; legs moderately 

 long, the adpressed hind leg reaches or fails slightly to reach 

 elbow of foreleg ; twenty-four lamellae under fifth toe, thirty-two 

 scale rows around body, each scale on back and side with either 

 five or seven keels; belly scales smooth; anals somewhat en- 

 larged ; tail very slender, elongate. 



Color in life.— Above iridescent olive-black, with bluish white 

 to gray lines. There is a median black stripe beginning on 

 parietals and extending to some distance on tail; this is bordered 

 by two grayish white lines which also extend on tail; a dorso- 

 lateral yellowish stripe runs from snout along the supercilianes, 

 and on the sides to some distance on the tail; another cream 

 line runs along labials through auricular opening to groin; be low 

 this line, separated by a dark stripe, is another white line broken 

 by the foreleg and continuing to groin; below this last line is 

 only a trace of a dark line; belly greenish white; tail growing 

 brownish toward middle; foreleg and hind leg with indistinct 

 spots. 



Measurements of the type of Mabuya bontocensis sp. nov. 



Total length ^{j 



Snout to vent 100 



Tail 15 



Length of head 9 

 Width of head 



There is little or no variation in the ^owtten. J£™* 

 parietal is invariably small, never separating *he P^ietals, m 

 two specimens it is only partially distinct from the Panels 

 in the other specimens the parietals are inju red and ^ c°nd>t™ 

 of the interparietal cannot be determined. The following table 

 gives the variation in scale counts: 



of Mabuya btmtocemis ip. nov. 



. ■ „„ t« thp Mabuva multicarinata 

 Remarks.-THs spec.es belongs to "»<V y tim and 



Gray group. It differs from that species in co. 



