354 The Philippine Journal of Science i9i7 



Mr. Homer McNamara, superintendent of the La Carlota 

 Agriculture Experiment Station, who accompanied me on two 

 of my four trips to Canlaon, made a considerable collection of 

 reptiles at the agricultural farm, which he very kindly presented 

 to me. 



The following new species and new subspecies ^ are described 

 in this paper: 



SNAKES 



Typhlops canlaonensis. Calamaria gefvasii irideacens. 



Natrix dendrophiops negrosensis. Trimeresurus wagleri alboviridis. 

 Pseudorhabdium racnamarse. 



LIZARDS 



Lepidodactylus christiani. Siaphos auriculatum. 



Sphenomorphus arborens. Leiolepisma pulchellum grande. 



SNAKES 

 Typhlops braminus Daudin. 



Common in certain localities. Mr. McNamara collected more 

 than a hundred specimens of this diminutive snake on the 

 agricultural farm at La Carlota. Most of these are dark 

 purplish brown, other specimens are dull pearl-gray. This color 

 does not seem to be caused by age, by disease, or wholly by the 

 fact that the individual is on the point of shedding its skin, since 

 young, old, and newly shed specimens are among the lot. Care- 

 ful study revealed no other variation save that the scales, es- 

 pecially those on the head, seemed thicker and the eye was dim or 

 totally obscured. 



Typhlops canlaonensis sp. nov. 



Type. — No. 241, E. H. T. collection. Canlaon Volcano, Ne- 

 gros, P. I. ; December 25, 1915 ; elevation about 750 meters. E. 

 H. Taylor, collector. 



Description of type. — Head depressed, a little wider than 

 body; snout projecting moderately; rostral elliptic, distinctly 

 wider behind than at tip of snout and failing to reach level of 

 eyes by half the width of prefrontal, more than one third the 

 width of head; nostrils lateral, not visible from above; nasals 

 large, not in contact behind rostral, not completely divided by 

 nasal cleft, which arises from second labial and passes through 

 nostril and to a point about halfway from nostril to rostral ; nasal 

 in contact with first three labials; preocular present, narrowed 

 to a point above, its greatest width, equal to that of ocular, occurs 

 below level of eye ; narrowly in contact with supra-ocular above 



' All specimens, unless otherwise noted, are in my private collection. 



