176 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



region with a blackish spot; upper and lower labials grayish 

 with white spots; neck and chin whitish, marbled and spotted 

 with darker; belly pinkish white; base of tail pinkish. Tril 

 broken and regeneration merely begun. 



Measurements of Sphenomorphus luzonensis (Boulenger). 



mm. 



Total length 65 



Snout to vent 41 



Tail, part missing 24 



Snout to foreleg 15 



Axilla to groin 22 

 Length of head 9.2 



Width of head 5.2 



Foreleg 10 



Hind leg 15 



Remarks. — This specimen agrees with the type in scalation of 

 head and body, but there are certain differences in the propor- 

 tions of the various measurements. The specimen at hand is 

 larger than the type; the hind leg is longer than in the type 

 and equals the distance from snout to foreleg instead of from 

 posterior part of eye to foreleg; the coloration and markings, 

 however, are rather similar ; the union of the prefrontals in the 

 described specimen is probably abnormal. 



This rare species is known only from the high mountains 

 in northern Luzon. The type is from "Mt. Benguet," where 

 the collector, Whitehead, made a considerable collection of 

 mammals. The specimen described is from near Banaue, Ifu- 

 gao,* at an elevation of about 2,000 meters. 



SPHENOMORPHUS DECIPIENS (Boulenger) 

 PLATE 15, FIG. 2 



Lygosoma decipiens Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1894) 734, 

 pi. 49, fig. 3. 



Description of species. — (From Boulenger.) "This small 

 Scink so much resiembles the preceding [Lygosoma luzonense'] 

 in coloration and in the scaling of the head that one would 



* Mr. Beyer made a considerable herpetological collection about Banaue 

 in May, 1918. Among the specimens collected at this high elevation were 

 the following snakes, lizards, and frogs: 



Elaphe erythrurus (Dumeril and Bibron), Cyclocorus lineatus (Rein- 

 hardt), Matrix spilogaster (Boie), Mahuya multicarinata (Gray), Calotes 

 marmoratus (Gray), Oxyglossis Ixvis Giinther, Rana magna Stejneger, 

 and Polypedates leucomystax ( Gravenhorst) (both the spotted and the 

 lined forms). 



