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Key to the Philippine species of Chaperina Mocquard. 
a'. Black above, with or without yellow specks; yellow below reticulated 
with black; dermal spine on heels; belly smooth C. beyeri sp. nov. 
a‘. Brown above, -with a median white stripe; two light areas on either side 
of back and a ) (-shaped light mark extending in front on either side 
of anus; belly granular on dermal spine C. visaya sp. nov. 
Chaperina beyeri sp. nov. Plate 3, fig. 3. 
Type. — No. 557, E. H. Taylor collection; collected in upper 
Agusan, Mindanao, between Agusan and Simulao Rivers (prob- 
ably in Davao or near the Davao-Agusan line), June, 1913, by 
E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type. — Vomerine teeth wanting; choanse mod- 
erate, rather hidden under edges of jaw; a small bony ridge 
across palate in front of eyes and behind choanse, somewhat 
angular medially; a small dermal ridge, rather indistinct in 
hinder part of palate; head wider than long; snout short, trun- 
cate ; nostrils nearer tip of snout than eye, distance between them 
much greater than their distance from eye; eye rather small, 
diameter somewhat less than length of snout; pupil appears 
round ; interorbital width more than one and two-thirds times eye- 
lid ; tympanum wanting, but a slight depressed area in temporal 
region evident in dried or overpreserved specimens; a distinct 
groove from tympanic region to arm with a very indistinct fold 
above the groove; fingers unwebbed, with well-developed disks; 
first finger very short, with only small terminal disk, and only 
reaches base of second; fourth longer than second, reaching 
base of disk on third; subarticular tubercles large; elbow with 
a distinct dermal spine; toes unwebbed, with distinct terminal 
disks; first toe reaches subarticular tubercle of second; third 
much longer than fifth ; heel with a distinct, sharp, dermal spine ; 
hind limb brought forward, the tibiotarsal articulation reaches 
eye; skin smooth both on entire upper and on lower surface. 
Male apparently without vocal sac. 
Color in life. — Above dark brown to blackish; on sides of 
head and body, on posterior part of back, and above limbs are 
small lemon yellow dots of varying size ; limbs very dimly marked 
with irregular darker bars ; dermal spines on limbs yellow ; belly 
and underside of limbs yellow to orange spotted, and reticulated 
with brownish, forming rather rounded yellow spots; a distinct 
light spot at base of digital disk above and below; subarticular 
tubercles black, some with a dividing whitish line. 
