SPHENOMORPHUS 



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Description of species— {From No. 968, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected on Guimaras Island, December 28, 1914, by E. 

 H. Taylor.) Snout pointed, the supraocular region but slightly 

 raised ; rostral large, broadly in contact 

 with frontonasal; latter much broader 

 than deep; prefrontals broadly in con- 

 tact; frontal shorter than frontopa- 

 rietal, touching two supraoculars and 

 first superciliary ; frontoparietals sin- 

 gle; interparietal shorter than frontal; 

 parietals form a suture behind inter- 

 parietal; four supraoculars; eight 

 superciliaries ; nostril pierced in the 

 middle of a diagonally elongate nasal; 

 two vertical frenals, both touching 

 labials; lower eyelid scaly; seven upper 

 labials separated from orbit anteriorly 

 by one row, posteriorly by two rows, of 

 small scales; temporals distinctly en- 

 larged, two anteriorly; no nuchals; 

 ear opening large, about two-thirds eye 

 opening, distinctly nearer foreleg than 

 end of snout; thirty smooth scale rows 

 about body ; preanals enlarged ; adpressed limbs meet ; fourth 

 toe with twelve lamellae bellow ; scales below tail not enlarged. 



Color in life, — Above light brown with a broken line of dark 

 brown medially ; two short brownish lines evident on either side 

 beginning on occipital region; dorsolaterally a dark line begin- 

 ning on neck above ear continues to tail, where it is broken up 

 into a series of dark, almost black spots; limbs brown, with 

 roundish light spots; head mottled with brown; labials brown, 

 each with a yellowish spot; below pinkish white, undersides of 

 tail specked with brown. 



Measurements of Sphenomorphus steerei Stejneger. 



Fig. 23. Sphenoviorphiis steerei 

 Stejneger ; after Stejneger ; a, 

 head, dorsal view ; b, head, 

 lateral view ; enlarged. 



Length, tip of tail regenerated 



Snout to vent 



Width of head 



Axilla to groin 



Snout to foreleg 



Foreleg 



Hind leg 



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4.5 

 15.2 

 11 



6.4 

 10 



Variation, — I have also referred to this species specimens 

 from Canlaon Volcano, Negros; from Butuan, Mindanao; from 



