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Color in life. — Above brown, each scale with a darker brown 

 area, covering eight scale rows ; laterally and ventrally brownish 

 yellow with some lateral scales flecked with the darker brown 

 of the dorsal area; scales of belly of some specimens flecked 

 with brown; scales on the ventral part of tail usually dark 

 brown; head and upper labials usually dark brown, scales on 

 the end of snout lighter. 



Measurements of Brachymeles schadenbergi Fischer. 



Largest 



specimen, 

 mm. 



Average of 8 



nearly equal-sized 



specimens. 



mm. 



Length 220 206 



Snout to vent 112 99 



Tail "108 106 



Snout to foreleg • 31 29 



Axilla to groin 71 64 



Foreleg 13 12.5 



Hind leg 20 19 



* Tip missing. 



Remarks. — This species is common in Mindanao. Most of 

 the specimens examined are from Agusan River Valley. It is 

 a burrowing form and is usually found under logs or trash. The 

 females give birth to from two to five young. 



The preceding description is based on a series of 20 specimens 

 from Mindanao. 



Brachymeles gracilis Fischer. Plate I, fig. 2. 



Senira bicolor, part., Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. (1845), 98; GiJNTHER, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1879), 76. 

 Eurneces {Riojia) gracilis Fischer, Jahrb. Wiss. Anst. Hamb. (1885), 



11, 85, PI. Ill, fig. 1. 

 Brachymeles gracilis Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. (1887), 3, 387. 



Description of species. — Rostral broader than high, visible 

 above ; supranasals present, in contact or not behind the rostral 

 (8 specimens touch, 19 do not) ; frontonasal broader than deep; 

 prefrontals broader than deep, never in contact with each other, 

 laterally forming sutures with both f renals and first superciliary ; 

 frontal large, about as long as broad, in contact with the fronto- 

 nasal and two supra-oculars ; frontoparietals constantly in con- 

 tact, about as broad as deep ; parietals elongate, in contact or 

 not behind the interparietal (14 specimens touch, 13 do not) ; 

 interparietal about as long as broad with a distinct white eye- 

 spot ; nostril in a minute nasal followed by a postnasal ; two 

 frenals, first highest, second rather square ; five or six supercilia- 

 ries; five supra-oculars, second widest; six or seven upper labials, 



