190 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



The regenerated tail is reddish brown; the ground color varies 

 from light brown to almost black. 



Remarks. — This is a burrowing species and is usually found 

 under logs or in burrows in the earth about rotting stumps. 

 I haver never seen it in the open, unless first disturbed. It is 

 fairly common at Bunawan, Agusan. Two eggs are laid; these 

 are placed under the earth, usually in or about rotting stumps 

 or logs. 



Three specimens in the Bureau of Science collection were 

 obtained by me at Zamboanga, and on Teipono Island off the 

 coast of Basilan. The island is an extremely low, very small, 

 coral island; the highest elevation is probably not more than 

 one meter above high-tide mark. 



The Zamboanga specimens were obtained under partly sub- 

 merged logs at the edge of a small mountain stream. 



The type is in the British Museum, collected by H. Cuming, 

 1836-1840; the type locality is 'Thilippines." In the Philip- 

 pines the species is known from several localities in Mindanao, 

 and from Teipono Island, near Basilan. Peters records a speci- 

 men from Celebes. De Rooij makes no mention of its occur- 

 rence there. The specimen was collected by Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 who also collected in the Philippines. It is not at all improbable 

 that Meyer's specimen was collected in Mindanao. 



SPHENOMORPHUS LEDNICKYI Taylor 



Plate 18, fig. 3 

 Sphenomorphus lednickyi Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. 14 (1919) 120. 



Description of species. — (From the type. No. R1992, E. H. 

 Taylor collection; collected on Masbate Island, June, 1916, by 

 Victor E. Lednicky.) Rostral only slightly visible from above, 

 forming a broad, rather curved suture with frontonasal; latter 

 much broader than deep, broader behind than in front, in con- 

 tact with anterior f renal; prefrontals large, broadly in contact, 

 touching both frenals laterally, not in contact with first supra- 

 ocular; frontal as wide as, or slightly less than, supraocular 

 region, in contact with first superciliary and two supraoculars, 

 narrowed behind; frontoparietals distinct, rather elongate, 

 broadly in contact; interparietal much longer than wide, with 

 a distinct ''eye-spot;" parietals forming si suture behind inter- 

 parietals ; no nuchals present ; five supraoculars, last very small, 

 first deepest, second widest ; nostril pierced in a single nasal ; no 



