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covered. The species belongs to that part of the genus which 

 is distinguished by the separation of the rostral from the nostril. 

 The recently described Lepidodactylus naujanensis Taylor is the 

 most closely related species. 



LEPIDODACTYLUS AUREOLINEATUS Taylor 



Lejndodactylus aureoUneatus Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 10 

 (1915) 97. 



Description of species. — (From the type, No. 1775, Bureau of 

 Science collection ; collected at Bunawan, Agusan Province, Min- 

 danao, June, 1918, by E. H. Taylor.) Rostral rectangular, the 

 upper edge a straight line without notch or suture ; nostril mod- 

 erate, surrounded by rostral, two supranasals, and a large post- 

 nasal, supranasals separated from their fellows by a large me- 

 dian scale touching the rostral, with a pair of smaller scales on 

 each side; eleven upper labials, ten lower labials; two or three 

 slightly enlarged scales posterior to postnasal ; mental smaller and 

 narrower than adjacent labials ; anterior lower labials large, sub- 

 equal; a number of enlarged chin scales nearly all anterior to a 

 line drawn across jaw between fourth and fifth lower labials; 

 granules on snout larger than those on back; those on occiput 

 smaller than those on back ; scales on belly cycloid, juxtaposed or 

 subimbricate ; a long series of preanal and femoral pores in a 

 continuous series, angular medially, nineteen on each side ; behind 

 this series is a short angular series of preanal scales as large as, 

 or larger than, the pore scales ; behind this the scales gradually 

 diminish in size to anus; legs well developed, overlapping when 

 adpressed; foreleg brought forward reaches a very short dis- 

 tance in front of eye; digits very unequal in length, with short 

 distal phalanx bearing a claw ; distal phalanx and claw wanting 

 on inner digits ; digits only slightly wider at ends than at base, 

 with a series of lamellse on underside from tip to base, fifteen or 

 sixteen under longest toe, ten under shortest ; a rudiment of web 

 distinctly evident, and a slight fold of skin along posterior as- 

 pect of hind leg; diameter of eye twice in length of snout; ear 

 opening rather large, rather circular ; ear and nostril equidistant 

 from eye ; tail subcylindrical, flattened below, covered above with 

 granules arranged in regular transverse rows, eight or nine 

 to each annulation ; laterally a sharp, denticulate fringe, the an- 

 nulations marked by a larger spinelike scale ; scales below larger, 

 imbricating, six or seven rows in each annulation. 



Color in life. — Color changeable; when first taken the back was 

 dark brown with a series of reddish green spots beginning on 

 middle of back and continuing to end of tail, growing more dis- 



