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LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



GEKKO MINDORENSIS Taylor 



Gekko Tnindorensis Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. 14 (1919) 115. 



Type.— No. 499, E. H. Taylor collection; collected at Pocanil 

 Point, Mindoro, May 4, 1916, by E. H. Taylor. 



Description of type. — Head moderately large, rather oviform; 

 snout somewhat longer from eye than distance of eye to auric- 

 ular opening; latter at least one-half diameter of eye, oval, 

 distinctly oblique; rostral large, voider than deep, with a suture 

 above, medially ; nostril large, obliquely oval, surrounded by ros- 



FlG. 11. 



Gekko mindorensis Taylor ; from the type ; 

 pores ; X 2. 



chin ; h, head, lateral view ; c, preanal 



tral, first labial, two subequal supranasals, and a postnasal; 

 rostral forming the longest side of nostril ; a single scale inserted 

 between the two anterior supranasals; twelve upper labials, 

 ten lower; the line of the mouth makes a sharp angle upward 

 immediately below eye; loreal region covered with rather en- 

 larged granules, largest immediately in front of eye; a row of 

 enlarged granules bordering upper labials above; interorbital 

 region and medial area on snout depressed, covered with much 

 smaller granular scales; occipital region covered with minute 

 granules, interspersed with indistinct larger ones ; mental trian- 



