194 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



which I have referred here are from the following localities: 

 Baguio, four specimens; Mount Mariveles, Bataan, six speci- 

 mens; eastern Mindanao, nineteen specimens. The type locali- 

 ties are Borongan, Samar, and Tacloban, Leyte. Specimens 

 listed by Boulenger * will also be classed in this first group. 



SPHENOMORPHUS JAGORII DIVERGENS subsp. nov. 



Description of subspecies. — From the typical form this sub- 

 species differs only in the presence of an unpaired frontoparietal 

 scale; otherwise it appears to be identical with the typical form. 

 The specimens in the collection referable to this form are: four 

 from Mount Maquiling, Luzon ; six from Lake Naujan, Mindoro ; 

 nine from Suma'gui, Mindoro; and twelve from Calapan, Min- 

 doro. It will be noted that the Luzon locality is on that part 

 of the island lying nearest Mindoro. 



Variation. — Out of the twenty-one specimens from Sumagui 

 and Calapan, Mindoro, two have the frontoparietal divided nor- 

 mally. Each of the six specimens from Naujan, however, seems 

 to be an individual freak. The first large supraocular is usually 

 broken, the frontal entire or in two or even three apparently 

 regular pieces ; the frontoparietal is single, double, or, as in 

 two cases, divided into three regular scales; the lamellae under 

 the fourth toe seem more numerous. 



SPHENOMORPHUS JAGORII PALUSTRIS Taylor 



Sphenomorphus palustris Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 10 (1915) 

 102. 



This form was first regarded as a separate species. A study 

 of a large number of specimens from various parts of the south- 

 ern islands causes me to regard it now as being of only sub- 

 specific value. 



Differs from the typical form in having forty scale rows about 

 the body; twenty to thirty lamellae under the fourth toe; the 

 body much darker with indistinct lighter brown stripes across 

 the back, which are distinct laterally becoming bluish white in 

 color; three light bars on the side of the head below the eye 

 divided by a like number of black stripes; the eyelid is edged 

 with golden yellow ; and the limbs are black with fine longitudinal 

 lighter lines running the length of the limbs. In size it agrees 

 quite well with the typical form, save that the ear is nearer the 

 end of the snout than the foreleg. 



* Loc. cit. 



