THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 AND Anthropology 



Vol. X MARCH, 1915 No. 2 



NEW SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE LIZARDS 



By Edward H. Taylor 

 {Hinigaran, Occidental Negros, Negros, P. I.) 



ONE PLATE 



This paper is based on the collections made by the Bureau of 

 Science during the past ten years and that made by me during 

 the last two years. The latter collection is by far the larger 

 and more representative. It has been made chiefly in Baguio, 

 Mountain Province; Occidental Negros Province; and Agusan 

 Province, Mindanao. 



Most of the new species were taken at Bunauan, in the upper 

 Agusan Valley. So far as I know, no collection has ever been 

 made before in this locality. Hugh Cuming and A. H. Everett 

 collected at various places along the coast of Mindanao during 

 Spanish times; in more recent years Dr. Edgar A. Mearns and 

 Maj. J. M. T. Partello of the United States Army collected in 

 various parts of the interior. New species taken by the two 

 American collectors were sent to the Smithsonian Institution, and 

 some of them have been described by Stejneger.^ 



Bunauan is situated in a great sunken lake and swamp 

 region, and has a remarkable herpetological fauna. More than 

 120 species were found there and nearly 2,000 specimens were 

 collected; however, about 500 of these were lost in shipping the 

 collection from the interior to the coast. In this lot a few Very 

 rare forms, including Draco mindanensis Stejneger, Tropido- 

 phorus partelloi Stejneger, and 2 others, probably new, were lost. 



The faunae of the various islands of the Philippine Archipel- 

 ago are more or less distinct; that of Palawan, as shown by 



^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1908), 33, 677; (1908), 34, 199; (1911), 39, 97. 



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