188 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Variation. — The collection contains six adult specimens and 

 seven young, all taken on Mount Canlaon. There is a slight 

 amount of variation in the width of the frontal and in its rela- 

 tion with the first superciliary. Several of the specimens have 

 neck and throat a dark muddy color, with a bluish tinge; the 

 young are colored like the adults. 



Remarks, — This species superficially resembles Sphenomorphus 

 variegatus (Peters), but differs in a number of essential points. 

 There are fewer supraoculars, the scales on the foot, and especial- 

 ly the heel, are larger ; the first f renal is high and not superim- 

 posed above another; the hind leg is much shorter and does not 

 reach the axilla, In S. variegatus the hind leg reaches halfway 

 between the foreleg and ear. 



It is common on Mount Canlaon at an elevation of 800 to 1,200 

 meters ; it is strictly arboreal, and is seldom seen on the ground. 



. SPHENOMORPHUS FASCIATUS (Gray) 

 Plate 12, fig. 3 



Hinulia fasciata Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 75; F. Muller, III. Nacht. 



Cat. Herp. Saniml. Basel. Mus. (1883) 21; Fischer, Jahrb. wiss. 



Anst. Hamburg 2 (1885) 80. 

 Lygosoma (Hinulia) fasciatum Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1872) 583. 

 Lygosoma fasciatum Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 237, 



pi. 15, fig. 2. 

 Sphenomorphus fasciatus Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 



372. 



Description of species. — (No. 534, E. H. Taylor collection; col- 

 lected at Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao, 1912, by E. H. Taylor.) 

 Body elongate, limbs short; snout short, obtuse; frontonasal 

 broader than deep, forming a narrow, curved suture with rostral, 

 in contact with nasal and anterior f renal laterally; no supra- 

 nasals; prefrontals large, not touching supraocular, barely in 

 contact medially; frontal nearly as long as frontoparietals and 

 interparietal together, as wide as supraocular region ; five supra- 

 oculars, second widest, first two in contact with frontal; fronto- 

 parietals distinct, longer than wide; interparietal small, the 

 parietals forming a broad suture behind it ; five pairs of nuchals ; 

 nostril pierced in a single nasal; two frenals, second lower and 

 wider than first; two preoculars, lower largest; nine superci- 

 liaries, first touching frontal ; lower eyelid scaly ; several enlarged 

 temporals, those in front of ear opening vertically elongated, 

 largest in contact with parietal; eight upper labials, sixth be- 

 low eye but separated from orbit by a row of scales ; six lower 

 labials not much longer than wide; mental moderate, followed 

 by one postmental, touching two labials and four paired chin 



