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under the tail only slightly enlarged; adpressed hind leg fails 

 to reach the adpressed elbow of the foreleg. 



Color in life. — Above reddish brown with a series of about 

 12 darker bands across the body, indistinct above, but darker 

 on the sides, especially on the head and neck, where the ends 

 appear as a series of large black spots; a series of light spots 

 on the labials, those on the last 3 labials bright yellow; tail 

 variously barred with very narrow indefinite bars of a darker 

 color; lower part of the tail dull purplish pink; small brown 

 spots on the neck; belly immaculate. In young individuals the 

 tail is pinkish. 



Measurements. — Total length, 166 millimeters; snout to vent, 

 66; width of head, 11; width of body, 14; foreleg, 18; hind 

 leg, 25. 



Remarks — This species superficially resembles Sphenomor- 

 phus jagori from which it is easily distinguished by the un- 

 divided frontoparietal. Spenomorphus coxi is common in the 

 swamps and on the sides of the low mountains near Bunauan. 

 Twenty-six specimens were collected. The species is named for 

 Dr. Alvin J. Cox, director of the Bureau of Science. 



Sphenomorphus curtirostris sp. nov- 



Diagnosis. — Limbs well developed; lower eyelid scaly; tympa- 

 num distinct; no supranasals; nostril pierced in a single large 

 nasal; snout short and blunt; frontoparietals fused in a single 

 large plate; parietals forming a suture behind the internasal; 

 frontonasals separated or forming a suture. 



Type. — No. R. 1695, Bureau of Science collection; Bunauan, 

 Agusan Province, Mindanao, September 8, 1912; E. H. Taylor, 

 collector. 



Description of type. — Rostral twice as wide as high, narrowed 

 on the ends to the width of the first labial; frontonasal twice 

 as broad as long, forming a broad suture with the rostral; 

 prefrontals narrowly separated, hexagonal in shape; width of 

 the frontal equal to, or slightly larger than, the supraocular 

 region ; first 2 supraoculars touching the frontal ; 4 supraoculars 

 (5 on the left side) ; nasal large, bordered behind by 2 loreals, 

 superimposed; diameter of eye equal to the distance from eye 

 to end of snout; frontoparietal a single plate; parietals forming 

 a long suture behind the interparietal; 7 upper labials unequal 

 in size; 2 or 3 rows of rather large unequal scales separating 

 the labials from the eye; a very large temporal bordering the 

 parietal ; bordered behind and below by 5 enlarged scales ; 10 



