14 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



British Museum and the Senckenberg Museum, have been studied 

 and reported on by able herpetologists. I have, with few ex- 

 ceptions, accepted their identifications without question. 



HISTORICAL 



In passing it will be interesting to note some of the more im- 

 portant collections that have been made in the Islands. Probably 

 the earliest noteworthy collection is that made by Hugh Cuming 

 in 1836-1840. The following types were collected : 



Luperosaurus cumingii Gray. Varanus grayi Boulenger. 



Draco ornatus (Gray). Mabuya multicarinata (Gray). 



Draco bimaculattis Giinther, Sphenomorphus fasciatus (Gray). 



Gonyocephalus sophise (Gray). Otosaurus cvmiingii Gray. 



Varanus rudicollis (Gray). Leiolopisma pulchellum (Gray). 



Varanus cumingi Martin. Tropidophorus grayi Giinther. 



("Isle of Mindanao.") Brachymeles bicolor (Gray). 



Unfortunately the exact type localities of all except one of these 

 species are no longer known, most of them bearing the record 

 ''Philippines.'' Specimens of all of them have been taken in the 

 Islands in more recent times, with the exception of Luperosaurus 

 cumingii, of which it appears that only the two type specimens, 

 an adult female and a half-grown specimen, have ever been 

 found. Besides the type specimens listed, Cuming collected sev- 

 eral other species which seem to be among the earliest, if not 

 the first, captures recorded for the Islands. Among them the 

 following are noteworthy: 



Varanus nuchalis (Gunther). Gekko gecko (Linnaeus). 



C'Cataguan.") Dasia olivaceum (Gray). 

 Brachymeles schadenbergi (Fischer). (Type of Tiliqua grisea Gray.) 



Brachymeles gracilis (Fischer). Emoia atrocostatum (Lesson). 

 Sphenomorphus jagorii (Peters). (Type of Mocoa cumingii.) 



Draco spilopterus (Wiegmann). 



The first four are undoubtedly the earliest recorded specimens 

 of these species captured, but they were not recognized as new by 

 Gray, who appears to have been the first to examine the collec- 

 tion. It was not until much later that the types were described. 



It is quite possible, but not certain, that Cuming collected the 

 first specimens taken in the Philippinesi of the following : 



Calotes marmoratus (Gray), Cosymbotus platyurus (Schneider). 



Draco reticulatus Gunther. Gekko monarchus (Dumeril and Bi- 

 Gymnodactylus philippinicus Stein- bron). 



dachner. Varanus salvator (Laurenti). 

 Hemidactylus garnotii Dumeril and ("Cataguan.") 



Bibron. Mabuya multifasciata Kuhl. 



