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with Boettger's record for the same species. There appears to 

 be but a single record for D. spiralis from Manila, that of Jan. 

 I strongly suspect that that specimen is an abnormal D. cyano- 

 cincta with a single anterior temporal. As a result of this elim- 

 ination, four species remain whose status is stable, and which 

 undoubtedly occur in the Philippines. These are D. cyanocincta, 

 D. cincinnatii. D. cyanosoma, and D. ornatus. The last-named 

 species belongs to the variety J), inornata of Gray. Table 51 

 will serve as a key for species found in the Philippines. 



DISTEIRA CINCINNATII Van Denburgh and Thompson 



Disteira cincinnatii Van Denburgh and Thompson, Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 Sci. IV 3 (1908) 41, pi. 7; Griffin, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 

 264. 



Description of species. — (From No. 1327, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected in Manila Bay, October, 1914, by E. H. Taylor.)' 

 (Male.) Body compressed, tail flattened; head small, not dis- 



FlG. 23. Disteira cincinnatii Van Denburgh and Thompson : after Van Denburgh and Thomp- 

 son ; a, head, dorsal view; b, head, lateral view: c, chin; d, anterior ventrals : e, anal 

 region ; /, ventrals. 



,tinct from neck; depth of neck contained in greatest body depth 

 nearly three times; head tapering, rather convex above; eyes 

 large; rostral about as deep as broad, distinctly visible from 

 above; internasal absent; nasals large, nearly quadrangular, 

 longer than wide, nostril pierced near its outer posterior edge 



