272 The Philippine Journal of Science 1917 



Remarks. — Females give birth to from four to six young at a 

 time. Embryos taken from a female captured in Mindoro meas- 

 ured about 60 millimeters and were still surrounded by a large 

 egg mass; the eyespot on the interparietal is prominent in the 

 embryos. 



This species is common in Negros and is especially common in 

 Mindoro. I was unable to find it in Mindanao where it has been 

 reported by J. G. Fischer. ' I surmise that the specimen reported 

 by Fischer is B. schadenbergi. The preceding description is 

 based on a series of 27 specimens from Negros and Mindoro. 



Brachymeles bicolor Gray. Plate I, fig. 3. 



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

 Brachyraeles bicolor BOULENGER, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. (1887), 3, 388, 

 Plate XXXL Casto de Elera, Fauna de Filipinas (1895) , 422. 



Description of species. — Rostral very much broader than deep, 

 not touching the frontoparietal; internasals large, broadly in 

 contact behind the rostral and forming their longest suture with 

 the frontonasal ; latter much broader than deep, in contact with 

 one loreal and in contact with the frontal at a single point; pre- 

 frontals large, minutely separated, wider than deep; frontal 

 longer than wide, rather pointed in front, 

 touching two supraoculars ; two frontoparietals, 

 a little wider than deep, broadly in contact be- 

 hind frontal ; two very elongate parietals, lying 

 diagonally, nearly three times as long as wide, 

 forming a suture behind interparietal; latter 

 longer than broad; a pair of nuchals, narrow 



Fig. 3. Brachymeles i v j 



bicolor Gray, chin and elougate ; a large, elongate temporal borders 

 shields. x2. parietal; nasal extremely small, only a ring 



about nostril ; a postnasal of nearly the same 

 size; two large frenals, first higher than wide, higher than 

 second; second f renal nearly square; a preocular directly in 

 front of eye; five supra-oculars, second longest and arranged 

 as in other members of the genus, two in contact with frontal ; a 

 few small scales below orbit above labials ; six superciliaries ; six 

 upper labials, first largest, not touching internasal ; fourth under 

 eye, first four of nearly the same size; two or three scales in 

 temporal region enlarged ; six lower labials ; mental broader than 

 deep, rather rectangular; postmental single, wider than deep; 

 first pair of chin shields in contact, wider than second pair ; the 

 latter small, separated by three scales (like the arrangement in 

 B. schadenbergi) . Ear opening greatly reduced and well poste- 



' Fischer, loc. cit. 



