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LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



what among themselves in color and also from the type. Speci- 

 mens from the first three localities are light gray, with a distinct 

 black streak passing above labials through eye, and a second 

 along canthus rostralis also passing through eye, the two 

 meeting medially on back of head; back mottled with darker 

 color, with a distinct dark spot on base of tail above; 

 the light spots (red in the type) are also evident in these speci- 

 mens. The scales in the first row bordering labials are 

 slightly larger than are those in the type. One specimen is a 

 male with ten and twelve femoral and seven preanal pores. The 

 Bubuan specimen is brown with darker brown reticulations and 

 a short orange line behind eye and small orange spots on 



Fig. 8. Hemiphyllodactylus insvlaris Taylor ; from the type, from Mindoro ; preanal and 



femoral pores ; X 10. 



the sides; a dark-edged light mark on base of tail above, as 

 in the type. 



Remarks. — This species is very closely allied to Hemiphyllodac- 

 tylus leucostictus Stejneger,* if actually distinct. I have exam- 

 ined Hawaiian specimens, and Stejneger's excellent description 

 and drawings of the type are at hand. The following differences 

 are evident from a comparison of the species : The anterior labials 

 are larger, and the posterior smaller, than in H. leucostictus; 

 the eye is nearer the ear opening than the end of the snout; 

 the lateral scales on the tail are not pointed and raised; the 

 preanal pores are in a curved, instead of an angular, series. 



* Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 21 (1899) 800, figs. 7 to 9. 



