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LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Lygosoma acutirostre Oudemans, in Semons ZooL Fors. Aust. 5 (1894) 



141. 

 Dasia smaragdinum Barbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing1;on 24 (1911) 



16; Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Havard Coll. 44 (1912) 91, pis. 1, 2 



(three varieties); Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 373; 



§ D 13 (1918) 253, pi. 3. 



Description of species. — (From No. 657, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao, 1912, by E. H. 

 Taylor.) Rostral low, wider than deep; no supranasals; fronto- 

 nasal as long as broad, anterior border convex, forming a wide 

 suture with rostral ; prefrontals very large, in contact medially ; 

 frontal longer than its distance to end of snout, longer than the 

 combined parietal length ; frontoparietals short, distinct, in con- 

 tact; interparietal small; parietals forming a suture behind 

 latter; three pairs of nuchals, nostril pierced in a single un- 



FiG. 33. Dasia smaragdinuvt (Lesson) ; a, head, dorsal view; b, head, lateral view 



X 2. 



chin ; 



divided nasal; latter followed by two elongate frenals; four 

 supraoculars, the first three bordering frontal ; nine supercil- 

 iaries, first two large, the others small ; nine upper labials, sixth 

 very wide below eye ; two much-enlarged temporals ; seven lower 

 labials; postmental at least three times size of mental; three 

 pairs of chin shields, two pairs in contact ; eye moderately large, 

 lower eyelid scaly ; ear opening small, with anterior lobules pro- 

 jecting; eye nearer ear than end of snout; ear nearer foreleg; 

 twenty-four rows of scales around body, smooth, dorsals en- 

 larged; preanals slightly enlarged; scales at base of tail very 

 small with a transversely dilated row under remainder; limbs 



