78 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Young. — Six pairs of small eggs were found attached to 

 various trees under the bark. These were brought to Manila 

 and, with no especial care, ten young were hatched. These were 

 very lively, but owing to their inability to obtain suitable food 

 all died soon or were preserved. They were uniform grayish 

 brown in color ; the largest measured 32.5 millimeters in length, 

 the smallest 29, on emerging from the egg. The eggs are smooth 

 and white, and are flattened on the sides by which they are 

 attached to each other ^nd to the trees. A great many of these 

 eggs were found but most of them were destroyed while being 

 removed from their resting places. 



Remarks. — This species is related to L. christiani Taylor, as 

 shown by the arrangement of the nasals and the separation of 

 the nostril from the rostral. The species described differs, 

 however, in the smaller development of the web between the toes ; 

 and in the absence of a fringe on the femur ; the tail is essentially 

 different. The types and cotypes are from Lake Naujan, Min- 

 doro; they were found under leaves of small climbing vines on 

 trees. Other specimens observed escaped. The habitat is 

 identical with that of the small Siaphos kempi Taylor, from the 

 same locality. On two occasions the two species were observed 

 on the same tree. 



LEPIDODACTYLUS WOODFORDI Boulenger 



Plate 2, figs. 4 and 5 



Lepidodactylus woodfordi Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1887) 

 334, pi. 28, fig. 1; DE RooiJ, Kept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 51; 

 Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 13 (1918) 239, pi. 1, figs. 4, 5. 



Description of species. — (From No. 1541, Bureau of Science 

 collection; collected on Sipayan Island (near Tawitawi), No- 

 vember 6, 1917, by E. H. Taylor.) Head oviform, with a broad, 

 shallow groove on snout ; a distinct depression between nostrils ; 

 rostral bent back over point of snout, broadly entering nostril, 

 highest at suture with internasal ; nostril surrounded by rostral, 

 first labial, a supranasal, and two postnasals; supranasals sep- 

 arated by a single large scale, with a pair of small scales on each 

 side ; ten to twelve upper labials ; mental differentiated in shape 

 but not larger than adjacent labials; ten lower labials, the last 

 two or three of both upper and lower labials very small ; largest 

 chin scales are four in number, one pair bordering mental, the 

 second immediately posterior to first pair; these scales are not 

 equal, but vary in size; other scales touching them are smaller, 

 rounding; granules on snout much larger than those on occiput 



