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rior to eye; 28 rows of scales around the body; anals not or 

 scarcely enlarged. Legs small, five fingers and toes present, all 

 clawed; lamellae below digits feebly compressed and unicarinate, 

 limbs rather broadened at base. Hind leg contained in the 

 distance from axilla to groin 7.4 times. 



Color in alcohol. — Above dark red-brown, covering ten scale 

 rows ; each scale with a darker brown spot, which is not readily 

 discerned; head and upper parts of limbs brown; laterally and 

 ventrally the color is yellowish to brownish white, distinctly 

 contrasted with the color above. 



Measurements of Brachymeles bicolor Gray. 



ram. 



Length, tail broken and a partial regeneration begun 215 



Snout to vent 155 



Width of body 18 



Width of head 14 



Snout to ear j .15 



Snout to eye 6 



Snout to foreleg 82 



Axilla to groin 112 



Foreleg 8 



Hind leg 15 



Remarks. — The specimen contained two embryos which were 

 almost fully matured. They measure 90 and 86 millimeters, re- 

 spectively; width of head, 6.5; snout to vent, 48; hind limb, 6. 

 The head scales are identical with those of the mother, save that 

 the interparietals are a little wider than deep; the nuchals are 

 present in one specimen, in the other they are broken. I regard 

 the presence of the nuchals as a normal characteristic, although 

 the figure of the type does not show them. This species is ap- 

 parently very rare. I have been unable to find it, and there is 

 no specimen in the Bureau of Science collection. I am inclined 

 to believe that it is an inhabitant of north-central and western 

 Luzon, although I have been unable to find any definite localities 

 recorded. It is the largest known species of the genus and is 

 readily recognized by the elongate body. 



Described from a specimen in the Santo Tomas Museum, Ma- 

 nila. It has no number. It is labeled "Filipinas." 



Brachymeles elerae sp. nov. Plate I, fig. 4. 



Type. — Museum of Santo Tomas, unnumbered; the collector 

 unknown; labeled "Filipinas." 



Description of type. — Rostral but little wider than deep, bend- 

 ing backward somewhat over end of the snout, broadly in contact 

 with frontonasal ; internasals reduced, separated, in contact with 



