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legs and tail of the cotype is bluish rather than black. There 

 is no trace in this species of the distinctive markings of 5. 

 jago?^. 



Dasia griiiini sp. nov. Plate I, figs, 5 and 6. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Dasia semicincta, but with a very 

 much shorter head and more pointed snout; much narrower 

 across the orbital region; the frontal longer than frontoparietal 

 and interparietal together; scales in 26 rows around the body; 

 scales larger than in D. semicincta; supranasals with a broad 

 suture. 



TTjpe. — No. 1777, Bureau of Science collection; Taytay, Pala- 

 wan; L. E. Griffin, collector. 



Description of type. — Rostral normal, much wider than high; 

 supranasals present, forming a suture ; frontonasal broader than 

 long, touching the frontal ; frontal long and narrow ; interparietal 

 present, separating the parietals; frontoparietal divided; 3 

 nuchals present; nasal rectangular, as long as the first labial, 

 followed by 2 loreals subequal in size; 6 or 7 superciliaries ; 4 

 supraoculars; 7 upper labials, fifth largest; 7 lower labials; ear 

 opening small with 1 large anterior lobule; temporals small, 

 3 or 4 in number; 18 lamellae under the fourth toe; adpressed 

 hind leg fails to meet the wrist of adpressed foreleg. 



Color in alcohol. — Greenish drab above with a series of 15 

 transverse bars of black beginning midway on the side; tail 

 indistinctly mottled; a lighter streak dorsolaterally along the 

 body to base of the tail ; below this line black ; under part of the 

 body immaculate light blue. 



Measurements. — Total length (tail regenerated), 224 milli- 

 meters; snout to vent, 111; foreleg, 30; hind leg, 39. 



Remarks. — Two other specimens were taken in Palawan which 

 agree with the type in scales and markings, but differ some- 

 what in coloration. The 3 specimens are adult. This species 

 is easily distinguished from Dasia semicincta by the much 

 shorter head, the smaller number of scale rows, and the mark- 

 ings. This species is named for its collector, Dr. Lawrence E. 

 Griffin, formerly professor of zoology in the University of the 

 Philippines. 



Dasia semicincta (Peters). Plate I, figs. 7 and 8- 



Euprepes {Titiqua) semicinctiis Peters, Monatsberichte d. Acad. d. 

 Wissensch. in Berlin (1867), 21. 



Boulenger has referred this species to Dasia olivacea Gray. 

 The taking of a number of specimens has confirmed my belief 



