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san Province, Mindanao, September 16, 1912; E. H. Taylor, 

 collector. 



Description of type. — Rostral flattened above, broader than 

 high, forming a narrow suture with the frontonasal ; prefrontals 

 nearly square, not meeting; frontal long, very narrow behind; 

 not wider than the supraorbital region, but longer than the 

 parietal region; frontoparietal plate divided; parietals forming 

 a suture behind the elongated interparietal; both ends of the 

 latter sharply pointed; supraoculars 6, the last 2 divided; nasal 

 large, touching first 2 labials; an elongate loreal immediately 

 behind followed by a second loreal, larger than the first; 2 en- 

 larged preoculars; 8 upper labials, the seventh largest; 7 or 8 

 lower labials; mental moderate, followed by 2 chin shields, the 

 second divided; a row of 3 enlarged suboculars under the fore 

 part of the eye with a smaller series beginning behind these 

 and continuing to the supraoculars behind the eye; 9 super- 

 ciliaries, the first largest, the last 5 subequal; a large temporal 

 bordering the parietal, with 2 temporals below, and 2 behind 

 the lower end, subequal in size; 40 rows of scales around the 

 body, laterals smallest; scales on the hind limb greatly reduced; 

 30 keeled lamellae below the fourth toe; 2 somewhat enlarged 

 transverse plates on the wrist; 2 enlarged preanals; diameter 

 of orbit equal to length of snout; hind leg pressed forward, 

 reaches to near the elbow of adpressed foreleg. 



Color in life. — Mottled brown above with scales of darker and 

 lighter shades; sides darker, with indistinct, irregular, bluish 

 bars, distinguishable across the back; area in front of the arm 

 bluish ; head uniform light brown above ; 3 white transverse bars 

 on the side of the head and 3 or 4 dark-chocolate bars alter- 

 nating with the white; the most distinct white line begins on 

 the white lower eyelid and continues down through the seventh 

 labial and is lost on the chin; tail and hind leg dark bluish to 

 black; chin creamy white, neck with a bluish tinge; abdomen 

 dirty brownish white. 



Measurements. — Total length (tail mutilated and partly re- 

 generated), 159 millimeters; snout to vent, 95; width of head, 

 16; foreleg, 24; hind leg, 35. 



Remarks. — This species is related to S. jagori, but differs in 

 many essential points. More than 100 specimens of the latter 

 which were taken at Bunauan agree remarkably in scalation 

 and coloration. Two specimens of S. palustris were taken sev- 

 eral kilometers apart in the large swamp near Bunauan. These 

 2 specimens agree in scalation, but the coloration of the hind 



