xin,D,5 Taylor: Reptiles of Sulu Archipelago 247 



Mabuya multicarinata Gray. 



Taken at Zamboanga, Santa Cruz, Basilan, Great Govenen, 

 Bubuan (Tapiantana Group), Dipolod, Bitinan, Jolo, Bubuan 

 (Tapian Group), Bongao, Papahag, and Simonor. I am certain 

 that I observed this species in Sitanki and on the coast of 

 British North Borneo, near Tunku Point. These southern speci- 

 mens differ but little from those in the more northern Philippine 

 Islands, save that the scale rows are thirty-two to thirty-four, 

 while the usual counts are twenty-eight to thirty in northern 

 specimens. 



Mabuya rudis Boulenger. Text fig. 5. 



Mabuia rudis Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. (1887), 3, 188, Plate 



11, fig. 3; DE RooiJ, Kept. Ind.-Aus. Arch. (1915), 1, 161. 

 Mabuia lewisi Bartlett, Crocod. Liz. Borneo (1895), 93. 



This is the first record of this species for the Philippines. In 

 consequence, I have appended a description of it. 



Description of species. — (No. 344, Bureau of Science collec- 

 tion; Papahag Island). Rostral rather small, wider than high, 

 well visible above, slightly in contact with the frontonasal ; inter- 

 nasal present, small, elongate, not in contact ; frontonasal slightly 

 broader than deep, in contact with the frontal behind ; prefrontals 

 rather large, separated, touching first and second supra-oculars ; 

 frontal narrow, elongate, not as wide as the supra-ocular region, 

 much longer than the distance to end of snout, and longer than 

 the parietal region; frontoparietals distinct, rather elongate, 

 longer than the interparietal ; parietals wider than long, not form- 

 ing a suture behind the interparietal; a pair of large nuchals; 

 four supra-oculars, the first much reduced, not touching the 

 frontal; second very large, the only supra-ocular touching the 

 frontal ; nostril in a rectangular nasal pierced behind the vertical 

 of suture of rostral and first labial; a postnasal; two frenals, 

 the anterior much higher than the nasal, much smaller than 

 second ; two preoculars between first superciliary and the fourth 

 labial, superior small; four labials anterior to large subocular; 

 six lower labials, first small, third much elongate ; mental narrow, 

 followed by a postmental and two pairs of divided chin-shields, 

 first pair in contact; temporals not or but slightly enlarged; 

 six superciliaries, the first and third much the largest; lower 

 eyelid scaly; ear moderate, tympanum deeply sunk, lobules pro- 

 jecting; scales in thirty rows around the body all keeled except 

 the ten ventral ; head scales somewhat rugose. Legs well devel- 

 oped, the adpressed hind limb reaches slightly beyond the 



