xin.D, 6 Taylor: Reptiles of Sulu Archipelago 239 



(red in the type) are evident in these specimens. The first row 

 of scales bordering the labials is slightly larger than in the 

 type. One is a male with ten to twelve femoral pores and seven 

 preanal pores. 



The Bubuan specimen is dark brown with darker brown reticu- 

 lations; a short orange line behind the eye and small orange 

 spots on the sides; a light, dark-edged mark on the base of tail 

 above, as in the type. 



Remarks. — This species is very closely allied to H. leucostictus 

 Stejneger, if actually distinct. I have no Hawaiian specimens, 

 but Stejneger's excellent description and drawings of the type 

 are at hand.^ The following differences are evident: The 

 anterior labials are larger, and the posterior smaller, than in 

 leucostictus; the eye is nearer the ear opening than end of 

 snout; lateral scales on tail not pointed and raised, the preanal 

 pores in a curved instead of an angular line. There are two or 

 (usually) three scales separating the supranasals. The speci- 

 mens from Sulu Archipelago have the chin-shields slightly en- 

 larged, and in one specimen a single large scale follows the 

 mental. All of these specimens were found along the seashore 

 under bark of trees exposed to sun and usually reached by the sea 

 water at high tide. Two small eggs are laid. These are joined 

 to each other and attached under the bark of trees. The eggs 

 are rather dirty or brownish white ; the undeveloped eggs in the 

 females are brown. 



Lepidodactylus woodfordi Boulenger. Plate I, figs. 4 and 5. 



Lepidodactyltis woodfordi Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1887), 

 334, PI. 28, fig. 1; db Rooij, Kept. Ind.-Aust. Arch. (1915), 1, 51. 



Description of species. — (From No. 1541, Bureau of Science 

 collection ) . Head oviform, with a broad shallow groove on snout ; 

 a distinct depression between nostrils; rostral bent back over 

 point of snout, broadly entering the nostril, highest at the suture 

 with internasal ; nostril surrounded by rostral, first labial, a su- 

 pranasal, and two postnasals ; supranasals separated by a single 

 large scale, with a pair of small scales on each side ; ten to twelve 

 upper labials ; mental differentiated in shape, but not larger than 

 adjacent labials; ten lower labials, the last two or three of both 

 upper and lower labials. very small; largest chin-shields are four 

 in number, one pair bordering the mental, the second immediately 

 posterior to first pair (these scales are not equal, but vary in 

 size) ; other scales touching these enlarged ones are smaller, 

 rounding; granules on snout much larger than those on occiput 



^Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1899), 21, 800, figs. 7, 8, 9. 



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