DASIA 205 



oped heel plates; preanal scales slightly differentiated, eight 

 bordering anus; twenty-six scale rows around body, slightly 

 keeled on posterior part of back, and above tail and limbs; 

 median scales under tail widened ; ear opening small with lobules, 

 nearer foreleg than end of snout. 



Colo?' in alcohol. — Greenish drab with a series of fifteen 

 broken, transverse, brownish black bars crossing body from head 

 to tail; tail indistinctly mottled; tip of tail, regenerated, light 

 gray; only slight indications of ocelli; belly grayish blue. 



Measurements of Dasia olivaceum griffini Taylor. 



mm. 



Total length, tail partly regenerated 224 



Snout to vent 111 



Snout to foreleg 41 



Tail 113 



Axilla to groin 58 



Width of head, in front of eye 9.5 



Depth of head, in front of eye 8 



Width of head, at ear 18 



Depth of head, at ear 16 



Foreleg 30 



Hind leg 89 



Variation. — The two cotypes agree very well with the type 

 in scalation, but differ somewhat in markings and coloration; 

 the transverse bars are dim, but the markings on the parietals 

 and on supraoculars are present (also present in the type) ; the 

 ground color is darker. 



These three specimens are from Palawan, where they were 

 collected by Dr. L. E. Griffin, for whom the species is named. 



DASIA SMARAGDINUM (Lesson) 

 Plate 20, figs. 1 to 3 

 Scincus smaragdinus Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. 2 (1830) 43, pi. 3, 



fig. 1; ScHLEGEL, Abbild. 33, pi. 11. 

 Scincus viridipunctus LESSON, Voy. Coquille, Zool. 2 (1830) 44, pi. 



4, fig. 1. 

 Scincus coelestinus Guerin, Icon. Reg. Anim. Rept. pi. 15, fig. 2. 

 Keneuxia smaragdina Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 79. 

 Lygosoma smaragdina Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 5 (1839) 738. 

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



250; DE RooiJ, Rept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 199-201 (four 



subsp.) . 

 Lygosoma (Hinulia) smaragdinum var. viridifuscum Peters, Mon. 



Berl. Ak. (1872) 776. 

 Lygosoma (Keneuxia) smaragdinum Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. 



Genova 13 (1878> 345. 



