66 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANiDS 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 21 (1899) 799; de Rooij, Rept. Indo-Aust. 



Arch. 1 (1915) 46. 

 Sputhodactylus Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1872) 594. 

 Spathoscalahotes Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus, 1 (1885) 156. 



Compressed distal phalanx of digits free, rising angularly 

 from within the edge of dilated portion and slightly projecting 

 beyond dilated portion ; subdigital lamellse confined to distal por- 

 tion of digit ; lamellse divided by a groove ; inner digits rudimen- 

 tary without distal free phalanges, clawless; tail narrow, cyl- 

 indrical, with no median transverse plates beneath; chin shields 

 but slightly enlarged; pupil vertical; body covered above with 

 minute granular scales ; below with imbricate scales. 



Stejneger has placed in this genus three species regarded by 

 Boulenger as belonging to Lepidodactyltcs Fitzinger. It appears 

 that the species in question, Hemiphyllodactylus ceylonensis, H, 

 crepuscular is, and H, aurantiacus, are more nearly related to 

 Bleeker's species H. typus than to species of Lepidodactylus, 

 Stejneger has described a species, H. leucostictus, from the Ha- 

 waiian Islands. The recently discovered species H. insularis 

 is closely related to the latter, if not identical with it. 



The typical species, H. typus, has been reported from Ticao, 

 Philippine Islands. I am skeptical on the point that the speci- 

 men recorded by Parent! and Picaglia * actually belongs to this 

 species, however. Unfortunately I have been unable to obtain 

 a specimen from Ticao, or to examine the one recorded by these 

 authors. Consequently I shall retain the species in the Philip- 

 pine fauna on the strength of this record.f 



Key to the recorded Philippine species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker. 



a\ Inner digit very small, clawless; males with an angular series of 

 15 preanal pores; no femoral pores H. typus Bleeker (p. 69). 



a^ Inner digit larger, clawless; males with a curved series of 7 or 8 preanal 

 pores, and a series of 9 to 12 femoral pores. 



H. insularis Taylor (p. 66). 



HEMIPHYLLODACTYLUS INSULARIS Taylor 

 Plate 2, figs. 6 and 7 



Hemiphyllodactylus insularis Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 13 

 (1918) 237, pi. 1, figs. 6, 7, text fig. 4. 



* Atti. Soc. Nat. Modena, Mem. Orig. Ill 5 (1886) 14. 



t It will be noted that Dendrophis punctulata, Gecko japonicus, and Mo- 

 nitor chlorostigma have been added to the list of Philippine reptiles on 

 the records of these same authors. Giinther's Philippine record of the above- 

 named snake has been relegated to Dendrelaphis terrificus by Boulenger. 

 I surmise that the same error obtains in Parenti and Picaglia's record of 

 this species as in Giinther's record. 



