386 SCINCID. 
14. BRACHYMELES. 
Brachymeles, Dum. & Bibr.v. p. 776; Gray, Cat. p. 98. 
Senira, Gray, l. ¢. 
Palatine bones not meeting on the median line of the palate, 
which is toothless. Lateral teeth conical. Eye small; upper 
eyelid not developed, lower more or less transparent. Ear distinct 
or hidden. Nostril in a very small nasal, between the rostral, the 
first labial, the supranasal, and, sometimes, a postnasal ; preefrontals, 
frontoparietals, and interparietal present. Body much elongate : 
limbs short or rudimentary. 
Philippine Islands. 
The following characters apply to all four species :—Five supra- 
oculars, first and second in contact with the frontal, second broadest ; - 
five or six supraciliaries; no nuchals; two loreals; first upper 
labial largest; a single labial entering the orbit; a single azygos 
postmental. Digits, if distinct, very short, feebly compressed, with 
feebly unicarinate lamelle inferiorly. Prseanal scales not or scarcely 
enlarged. 
} Synopsis of the Species. 
I. Limbs pentadactyle ; ear-opening distinct. 
A. The length of the hind limb is contained three or four times 
in the distance between axilla and groin. 
Supranasals in contact behind the rostral; 
28 or 30 scales round the middle of the 
Dodyisvacqeeiudeeeincd neers asus 1. schadenbergit, p. 386. 
Supranasals separated; 24 or 26 scales 
round the middle of the body ....... . 2. gracilis, p. 387. 
B. The length of the hind limb is con- 
tained seven times in the distance 
between axilla and groin; 28 
scales round the body .......... 3. bicolor, p. 388. 
II. Limbs stump-like ; ear-opening hidden 4. bonita, p. 388. 
1. Brachymeles schadenbergii. 
Senira bicolor, part., Gray, Cat. p. 98. 
Eumeces (Riopa) schadenbergi, Fischer, Jahrb. Wiss. Anst. Hamb. 
ii. 1885, p. 87, pl. iii. fig. 2. 
The distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb is 
contained twice to twice and a half in the distance between axilla 
and groin. Limbs pentadactyle; third toe slightly longer than 
fourth. The fore limb, when stretched forwards, does not reach 
the ear ; the length of the hind limb is contained thrice or thrice 
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