180 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



superciliaries ; frontoparietals united in a single large shield ; 

 interparietals large, similar in form to frontal but smaller; 

 parietals in contact behind interparietals; nuchals wanting; 

 seven supralabials, fifth below eye but separated from it by 

 a row of small scales; auricular opening vertically oval, large, 

 two-thirds of eye opening; no projecting lobules on anterior 

 border; thirty-two scales about middle of body, smooth; lateral 

 scales somewhat smaller than dorsals and ventrals; two en- 

 larged preanals, which are longer than broad ; hind leg stretched 

 forward reaches a little more than half the distance from axilla 

 to groin; fingers and toes cylindrical, fourth toe with sixteen 

 smooth subdigital lamellae. 



Color. — Above dark reddish brown with a median line of 

 dark spots; a dark dorsolateral stripe runs from eye. The 

 dark dorsolateral stripe has a small, three-cornered spur in the 

 region of the foreleg, bordered above with a bright line and 

 below with lighter spots. Below bright reddish brown, lips 

 and sides of head flecked and marbled with brown ; throat with 

 brown longitudinal stripes. 



Measurements of Sphenomorphus moellendorffl (Boettger) . 



mm. 



Total length 90 

 Length of head 8 



Width of head 6.25 



Head to anus 44 



Foreleg 10 



Hind leg 14 



Tail 46 



Remarks. — No specimen of this species has been exammed. 

 It appears that the type specimen (No. 6318a Senckenberg 

 Museum from Tablas, Philippine Islands) is unique. This de- 

 scription is taken from the original type description by Boettger. 



SPHENOMORPHUS STEEREI Stejneger* 



Sphenomorphus steerei Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 34 (1908) 

 202; TAYLOR, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 372. 



* The small lizards in this group, which includes S. steerei Stejneger and 

 S. luzonensis (Boulenger), are quite closely related, are about the same size, 

 and have much the same color pattern. Apparently both of these forms 

 were described from single specimens and, in the case of the former, 

 presumably from an immature specimen. Fortunately, I have been able 

 to obtain specimens of S, steerei from the type locality, Guimaras Island. 

 These agree very well in scalation but vary in the proportions of legs and 

 body ; thus the legs are rather longer in proportion in young specimens than 

 in adults. One specimen has the ear slightly nearer the snout than the 

 foreleg. 



