156 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



pressed, with transverse lamellae beneath. Widely distributed 

 in Africa, Asia, East Indies, Central America, South America, 

 and West Indies. 



There are three Philippine species of this genus. 



Key to the Philippine species of Mabuya Fitzinger. 



a". No postnasal; scales quinquecarinate or septemcarinate; ear opening 

 without projecting lobules; scales rows, -28 to 30; hind leg adpressed 



reaches elbow M. multicarinata (Gray) (p. 156). 



or. A postnasal. 

 6\ Scales tricarinate or quinquecarinate; scale rows, 32 to 36 around body; 

 hind leg adpressed does not reach axilla. 



M. multifasciata Kuhl (p. 158). 



b^. Scales tricarinate; scale rows, 30 to 32; hind leg adpressed reaches 



axilla or beyond M, rudis (Boulenger) (p. 161). 



The first two species listed are extremely common forms, and 

 are known from one end of the Islands to the other. Both are 

 found in Borneo, while the second also has a wide distribution 

 in Asia. The first is oviparous, the second is ovoviviparous, as 

 many as ten young being born at a time. I am uncertain whether 

 the third lays eggs or not. 



The third species, M, rudis, has only recently been discovered 

 in the southern part of the Sulu Archipelago. 



MABUYA MULTICARINATA (Gray) 

 Plate 12, fig. 2 



Tiliqua multicarinata Gr.'^y, Cat. Liz. (1845) 109; Gunther, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London (1879) 76. 

 Mabuia multicarinata Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 185, 



pi. 11, fig. 2; de Rooij, Kept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 161. 

 Eumeces carinatus (var.) Peters, Preuss. Exped. O. Asien, Zool. Teil, 



1 (1876) 376. 

 Mabuya multicarinata Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 13 (1918) 247. 



Description of species. — (From No. 987, E. H. Taylor col- 

 lection; collected at Isabela, Negros, by E. H. Taylor.) Habit 

 lacertiform, the head rather v^edge-shaped, the supraocular 

 region not or but slightly raised; rostral moderate, forming a 

 narrow suture with frontonasal; suture with labial anterior to 

 nostril ; supranasals present, long, narrow, not in contact ; fronto- 

 nasal longer than broad, separated from nasal, touching a single 

 f renal and forming a narrow suture with frontal; prefrontals 

 well developed, separated, in contact with two frenals, first su- 

 perciliary and first two supraoculars ; frontal longer than broad, 

 narrower than supraocular region, its widest part anterior to 

 eye, in contact with second supraocular only; frontoparietals 

 double, small, each touching three supraoculars; interparietal 



