228 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



the number of scale rows is forty; the frontonasal and frontal 

 are usually separated. In a series of nine specimens * in my col- 

 lection I find the frontal broadly in contact with the frontonasal 

 in all except one specimen, in which it barely touches; the toes 

 are more depressed; the scales are in forty rows, the lamellse 

 vary between thirty-five and thirty-eight. Nearly all the scales 

 on the head and the body are dimly edged with black. According 

 to de Rooij the scale rows vary between thirty and forty. The 

 Mindoro specimens also differ from the Bantayan specimens in 

 having the median instead of the lower preocular largest. 



Remarks. — Found throughout the Malay Archipelago and 

 northern Australia, Caroline Islands, etc. In the Philippines it 

 is known from Dinagat, Bantayan, Mindoro, Zamboanga, and 

 most of the islands of the Sulu Archipelago. Stejneger reports 

 a specimen from Bubuyan Islands, north of Luzon, collected by 

 Mr. R. C. McGregor. It is usually found along sandy beaches 

 and mangrove swamps. I have never encountered it more than 

 a few meters from the shore. It burrows in the sand, and feeds 

 almost wholly on small shore crabs. The female deposits two 

 eggs in a burrow near the surface of the sand. This species is 

 much larger than the other Philippine species of the genus. 



EMOIA CYANURUM (Lesson) 

 Plate 15, fig. 4 



Sdncus cyanurus Lesson, Voy. Coquille, ZooL 2^ (1830) 49, pi. 4, 



fig. 2. 

 Tiliqua cyanura Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 (1838) 289. 

 Eumeces lessonii Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 5 (1839) 654. 

 Mabouya cyanura Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 96. 

 Emoa cyanura Girard, U. S. Explor. Exped,, Herp. (1858) 270. 

 Euprepes cyanurus Steindachner, Novara Rept. (1869) 44. 

 Mabouia baudinii (non Dumeril and Bibron) Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London (1874) 296. 

 Euprepes (Mabuya) kordoanus Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1874) 133; 



Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova 13 (1878) 357. 

 Euprepes (Mabuya) beccarii DoRiA, Ann. Mus. Genova 6 (1874) 338, 



pi. 11, fig. D. 

 Euprepes (Mabuya) cyanurus Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova 6 (1874) 338; 



Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova 6 (1874) 356. 

 Lygosoma cyanurum Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 290; 



de Rooij, Rept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 253, fig. 90. 

 Emoia cyanurum Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 44 



(1912) 93. 



Description of species. — (No. 1344, Bureau of Science collec- 

 tion; collected on Comiran Island, near Balabac, by W. Schultze.) 



* From Mindoro. 



