192 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Variation, — The cotype from the same locaHty agrees in scala- 

 tion, but the head is broader and the broad black stripe is 

 almost wanting along the body. The regenerated tail has broad 

 scales above and below. 



Remarks. — The types were collected in Masbate near the 

 Aroroy gold mines, by Mr. Victor E. Lednicky, formerly chief 

 of the division of mines, Bureau of Science. He states that 

 these lizards appear to be plentiful in that locality. Superficially 

 this species resembles Sphenomorphus curtirostris, but the 

 latter has the frontoparietal single, fourteen lamellae under 

 longest toe, more upper labials, and the nasal followed by 

 superimposed frenals. 



SPHENOMORPHUS JAGORII (Peters) 



Lygosoma (Hinulia) jagorii Peters, Mon. BerL Ak. (1864) 54. 

 Hinulia variegata (non Peters) Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 



(1873) 165, pi. 17, fig. B; (1879) 76. 

 Lygosoma jagorii Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 240. 

 Sphenomorphus jagori Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 33 (1908) 



545; Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 372. 



This species is represented in the Philippines by several variant 

 forms, worthy of subspecific distinction. 



Key to the subspecies of Sphenomorphus jagorii (Peters). 



a\ Scales, 36 to 38 rows; frontoparietal divided; Luzon, Samar, Leyte, 



Mindanao, Negros S. j. jagorii (Peters) (p. 192). 



a-. Scales, 36 to 38 rows; frontoparietal single; southern Luzon, Mindoro. 



S. j. divergens subsp. nov. (p. 194). 

 a'. Scales, 40 rows; frontoparietal divided; Mindanao, Sulu Archipelago. 



S. j. palustris Taylor (p. 194). 



a*. Scales, 44 rows; frontoparietal divided; Mount Canlaon, Occidental 



Negros S. j. grandis subsp. nov. (p. 195). 



SPHENOMORPHUS JAGORII JAGORII (Peters) 



Description of subspecies. — (From No. 814, E. H. Taylor col- 

 lection; collected at Agusan, Mindanao, September 10, 1912, by 

 E. H. Taylor.) Habit lacertiform; head rather pointed; supra- 

 orbital region prominent; rostral very broad, visible above, 

 moderately in contact with frontonasal which is broader than 

 long ; prefrontal quadrangular, laterally in contact with two fre- 

 nals, separated from its fellow; frontal elongate, more than 

 one and one-half times as long as wide, as long as the combined 

 parietal length, as wide as or slightly less than the supra- 

 ocular region ; frontoparietals distinct, longer than wide, larger 



