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There are two or (usually) three scales separating the supra- 

 nasals. 



The specimens from Sulu Archipelago had the chin shields 

 slightly enlarged, and in one specimen a single large shield 

 followed the mental. 



All of these specimens were found along the seashore under 

 the bark of trees which were exposed to the sun and the bases 

 of which were usually reached by the sea water at high tide. 

 Two small eggs are laid. These are joined to each other and 

 attached under the bark of trees. The eggs are rather dirty or 

 brownish white ; the undeveloped eggs in the females are brown. 



Known only from Mindoro and Sulu Archipelago. It is pos- 

 sible that the specimen of the genus reported by Parenti and 

 Picaglia from Ticao is also of this species. 



HEMIPHYLLODACTYLUS TYPUS Bleeker 

 Plate 4, fig. 2 



Hemiphyllodactylus typus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind. 20 (1860) 



827; BOULENGER, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. V 20 (1887) 152; de 



RooiJ, Kept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 46. 

 Spathodactylus mutilatus Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1872) 



594. 

 Spathoscalabotes mutilatus Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 1 (1885) 



157, pi. 13, fig. 1; Parenti and Picaglia, Atti. Soc. Nat. Modena, 



Mem. Orig. Ill 5 (1886) 14. 



Description of species. — "Head more long than broad, oviform ; 

 snout as long as the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, 

 one time and a half the diameter of the eye; ear-opening very 

 small, oval, oblique. Rostral broad, nearly pentagonal; nostril 

 bordered by the rostral, the first labial, a supranasal and two 

 or three small scales. Eleven upper and as many lower labials ; 

 mental small, triangular; no chin-shields. Body long and 

 slender; covered with small granular scales, those on the snout 

 and the limbs somewhat enlarged. Limbs slender; digits very 

 unequal, free; inner rudimentary, four pair of lamellae under 

 the other digits. Ventral scales larger, smooth, imbricate. 

 Male with an angular series of 15 praeanal pores. Tail cylin- 

 drical, slender, covered with small scales." 



Color. — "Brown above, marbled with darker; a dark streak 

 from the tip of the snout to the shoulder, passing through the 

 eye; a series of round whitish spots beginning behind the eye 

 and continued along each side of the body to the tail. Tail 

 lighter brown above with two whitish elongate spots at its base, 

 white below for two-thirds of its length. Lower parts of body 



