22 i5 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, III 537 



Specimens were taken under logs, leaves, and trash, and 

 moving about in the forest. It is a common form on Jolo and 

 the Sulu islands to the south. 

 Sphenomorphus stejnegeri sp. nov. 



Type— No. 16, E. H. Taylor collection; collected on Mount 

 Banahao, Laguna Province, Luzon, May 30, 1920, by Edward 

 H. Taylor. . . . 



Description of type.-Rostral visible above, forming a broad 

 suture with frontonasal; latter much broader than deep, touch- 

 ing anterior f renal laterally; prefrontals broader than deep, 

 broadly in contact; frontal much longer than broad, longer than 

 its distance from tip of snout, not as broad as supraocular 

 region; frontoparietal single, broader than deep; nrterpanertal 

 small, triangular; parietals large, forming a suture behind inter- 

 parietal; a small nuchal scale on one side (may be abnormal 

 and due to a fusion of two body scales) ; nostril in a single 

 nasal; large anterior f renal, followed by two ™V*>*V»»*™- 

 nals, of which the lower is much the larger; two or three smal 

 preoculars; two rows of small irregular suboculars; eight super- 

 ciliaries, the anterior large, touching frontal; four supraoculars, 

 the last barely in contact with parieta , anterior separ ted from 

 prefrontal; three pairs of small scales ^^T^upe 

 temporals from orbit; two inferior temporals small , three ^supe 

 rior temporals much enlarged, the anterior argest very brc*d 

 followed by two greatly elongated vertical t <^f s ' sc *^ 

 following these also enlarged; an elonga te tempore bo rdenng 

 parietal separates the two elongate scales from parieta se en 

 upper labials, fourth lowest, with two enlarge d ^tadta s im 

 mediately above it; mental broader ^ ros ^Jte^rior 

 broad deep postmental; three pairs of dun sh eld • the an ter^ 

 pair in contact, second pair separated by a smgle se , 

 pair by four scales; auricular opening large the ty mp 

 deeply sunk; thirty-two scale rows around middle of^v, ^ 

 on side very distinctly smaUer than » tr ^ ^ ^ 



moderately well developed the adpressed urn ^^ 



side, fourth toe very much longer than tmro, 

 lamella; on undersurface. ith me dian 



Color in K /,.-Above dark vanegated ta*wn* ^ ^ 

 series of dark blackish spots separated oy y ^ ^ ^^ 



a broad dark streak from eye to *°™ ^ gtreak 



above anteriorly by a very narrow yellow 



