. Breviora. 8 BREVIORA No. 348 Taylor's (1922) account of a juvenile semicincta is the most vivid available for any species in the genus: "The body above is glossy coal black with a series of brilliant orange yellow bars from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail. . The legs and digits I are I barred with canary yellow; the regenerated tail is brick red; below, on j the | body the bars widen and lose themselves in the immaculate canary yellow of the ; There is a total of eight to nine yellow bars on the neck and body of this specimen described by Taylor. Another juvenil
. Breviora. 8 BREVIORA No. 348 Taylor's (1922) account of a juvenile semicincta is the most vivid available for any species in the genus: "The body above is glossy coal black with a series of brilliant orange yellow bars from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail. . The legs and digits I are I barred with canary yellow; the regenerated tail is brick red; below, on j the | body the bars widen and lose themselves in the immaculate canary yellow of the ; There is a total of eight to nine yellow bars on the neck and body of this specimen described by Taylor. Another juvenile with ten light crossbands on the neck and bodv is shown in Figure 2. u. FiGURi 2. f^orsal view of a juvenile (snout-vent length ^ 57 mm) and adult (snout-vcnl length = 117 mm) Dasia sciiiicinctu from the Philippine Islands showing the light and dark crossbands in the juvenile and their absence in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. , Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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