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the type by Boulenger.* The color pattern shown on Boulenger's 

 figure is almost identical with the markings of living adult 

 specimens taken by me. If the specimens are correctly identified, 

 as I believe they are, they represent an interesting addition to 

 the Philippine fauna. The nearest territory where the species 

 is known is New Guinea. The type locality is Faro Island, Solo- 

 mon Islands. 



LEPIDODACTYLUS CHRISTIANI Taylor 

 Plate 3, fig. 1 



Lejyidodactylus christiani Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 

 368, pi. 2, fig. 1, a, b. 



Description of species. — (From the type. No. 900, E. H. Taylor 

 collection; collected on Mount Canlaon, Negros, December 23, 

 1915, elevation about 700 meters, by E. H. Taylor.) Head not 

 distinct from neck, probably due to abnormal deposits of cal- 

 careous matter under the skin of the neck on both sides; snout 

 rather long, almost twice diameter of eye ; distance from nostril 

 to eye equal to, or minutely longer than, distance from eye to 

 auricular opening; auricular opening on left side abnormally 

 wanting, due to calcareous deposits; rostral more than twice as 

 wide as long, its upper margin irregular; nostril bordered by 

 first labial, a large postnasal, which is in contact with two 

 labials and three supranasals (four on right side) ; these scales 

 form a rounded prominence about nostril ; the supranasals com- 

 pletely separate rostral from nostril; anterior supranasal in 

 contact with first labial; between nasals, immediately behind 

 rostral, are three rather enlarged, rounded scales, and a small, 

 probably anomalous, scale; thirteen or fourteen upper labials, 

 last two very small ; angle of mouth without differentiated labial 

 scales ; two superimposed, enlarged scales behind postnasals, fol- 

 lowed by a row of irregularly enlarged scales bordering labials; 

 eleven lower labials; a row of small rounded scales bordering 

 lower labials, those touching mental smallest, two or three rows 

 of smaller scales bordering these; scales on forehead granular, 

 much larger than those on body; ear opening small, its greatest 

 diameter equal to one-third or one-fourth diameter of eye, nearer 

 eye than foreleg; eye large, pupil vertical; dorsal and lateral 

 scales granular, minute; ventral scales rounded, somewhat im- 

 bricate and larger ; a long continuous line of twenty-six enlarged 

 scales in preanal and femoral region; the nine median largest, 



* Boulenger states that his specimen has no distinct web, but his fig. 

 12 shows a distinct rudiment, such as is present in Sulu specimens. 



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