58 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



fringe ; scales above in small equal rows, annulations not evident ; 

 below with a median series of enlarged, transversely elongated 

 plates ; legs moderate ; digits with a slight trace of webs, dilated 

 at ends, all with small claws ; the lamellae below divided medially 

 and arranged obliquely, about ten under fourth finger; thirteen 

 under fourth toe ; first finger and toe very much reduced in size. 

 Color in life. — Brownish gray above, reticulated strongly with 

 darker; two indistinct longitudinal series of lighter spots on 

 either side; legs and head lighter; below yellowish white with 

 a wash of canary yellow ; inf radigital lamellae dark. 



Measurements of Hemidactylus garnotii Dumeril and Bibron. 



mm. 



Total length, part of tail regenerated 106 



Snout to vent 53 



Length of head 15 



Width of head 10 



Width of body 11 



Foreleg 18 



Hind leg 21.5 



Vanation.—A second specimen from the same locality agrees 

 remarkably well with the specimen described ; it is also a female. 

 Each contains two undeveloped eggs. There are no preanal 

 pores, but there is a continuous series of preanal and femoral 

 scales, each with a distinct depression or perforation, eighteen 

 on each side, which probably represent the number of pores in 

 the male. 



Remarks. — Rare in the Philippines, the only definite localities 

 being Sumagui, Mindoro, and Montalban, Rizal. Boulenger re- 

 ports a specimen from the 'Thilippines," no exact locality being 

 given. Stejneger,* in his work on Hawaiian reptiles, has sep- 

 arated H. garnotii Dumeril and Bibron from Doryura gaudama 

 Theobald, on the basis of the absence of femoral pores in the 

 former. He states: 



I have left out of the synonymy of this species all references to speci- 

 mens from India, Burma, and Sumatra, since Theobald described his Dor- 

 yura gaudama as possessing nineteen femoral pores, while the true H. 

 garnotii appears to be entirely destitute of femoral pores. 



*Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 21 (1899) 792. Stejneger lists thirty-five spec- 

 imens, which it appears he examined, but does not state whether they are 

 males or females. It would appear that dissection might have determined 

 the matter beyc^nd a doubt; it is not unreasonable to suppose that only 

 females would occur in such a series. I recently collected twenty-eight 

 specimens of a species of Lepidodactylus on a very tiny island on the 

 shore of Basilan, all of which proved to be females not only by the absence 

 of femoral pores but by actual dissection of most of the specimens. 



