SPHENOMORPHUS 



195 



Two specimens, the types of Sphenomorphus jagorii palustris, 

 were collected at Bunawan, Agusan, where it is rare but where 

 the other form, S. jagorii jagorii, is very common. One speci- 

 men was taken at Zamboanga, and several were taken on various 

 islands in the Sulu Archipelago. 



Fig. 27. 



Sphenomorphus jagorii palustris Taylor, from Sulu 

 dorsal view ; c, chin ; X 3. 



a, head, lateral view ; h, head. 



SPHENOMORPHUS JAGORII GRANDIS subsp. nov. 

 Sphenomorphus jagori Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 372. 



Type. — No. 1414, E. H. Taylor collection; collected on Can- 

 laon Volcano, Negros, December 25, 1915, by E. H. Taylor. 



Description of subspecies. — This form is apparently much 

 larger than the other three forms, and in scalation it differs 

 in having four more rows of scales around the body. The 

 ear opening is nearer the snout than foreleg. The color pattern 

 is rather different. There are twelve rather distinct black spots 

 on side beginning behind ear ; the large, elongated stripe is pres- 

 ent above hind leg; above, the dark brown and the light brown 

 color are about equally distributed in broad, irregular bands, the 

 darker ones joining the black lateral spots ; labials dark with a 

 few lighter spots. 



