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proportion to their length; twelve upper labials, eleven lower 

 labials; the first series of slightly enlarged chin scales which 

 join the mental and the anterior lower labials are rather smaller 

 than the next row, while in L. luguhris the proportion is reversed, 

 those nearest the mental being largest. 



Measurements of Lepidodactylus planicaudus Stejneger. 



mm. 



Total length 78 



Tip of snout to vent 41.5 



Vent to tip of tail, tip reproduced 36.5 



Remarks. — Stejneger remarks as follows on the species : 



Peters has already described a Lepidodactylus labialis from Mindanao 

 which is also said be closely allied to L. luguhris. It has, however, a "cylin- 

 drical tail," and differs from it, consequently, in just the opposite way of 

 our species. In the latter the tail is usually depressed and instead of taper- 

 ing gradually toward the tip, the edges are practically parallel for quite a 

 distance and then tapering off much more quickly. Instead of the "sharp- 

 ish" lateral edge of the Polynesian L, luguhris, our specimen has a lateral 

 free margin edged with a series of nearly uniform small spines which show 

 no definite verticillate arangement. The digits are wider and clumsier, 

 hence look shorter than in L. luguhris, and the laminae under the basal 

 joints are better defined. 



The type was collected by Dr. E. A. Mearns, June-July, 1904, 

 at an elevation of from 1,300 to 2,000 meters, on Mount Apo, 

 Mindanao; the type remains unique. 



LEPIDODACTYLUS NAUJANENSIS Taylor 



Lepidodactylus naujanensis Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. 14 (1919) 113. 



Description of species. — (From the type. No. 2006, E. H. 

 Taylor collection; collected April 25, 1916, at Lake Naujan, 

 Mindoro, by E. H. Taylor.) Rostral low, more than twice as 

 broad as high, not entering nostril; latter surrounded by first 

 labial and five nasal scales, forming a rounded prominence; the 

 postnasal bordering second labial largest of the five ; supranasals 

 separated by two series of three scales, all about the same size 

 as the nasal scales; a rather distinct groove on front end of 

 snout ; thirteen or fourteen upper labials ; thirteen lower labials ; 

 angle of mouth extending scarcely behind posterior vertical 

 of eye; mental scarcely larger than adjacent scales; chin covered 

 with many somewhat enlarged scales, about thirty-five, which 

 fill all the space in front of a line drawn across jaw between 

 fifth lower labials ; granules on snout larger than those on body ; 

 back and sides covered with minute granular scales with scat- 

 tered, slightly larger, spinelike scales, which are yellow; these 



