LEPIDODACTYLUS 75 



distinct from neck, much longer than broad; snout acuminate, 

 longer than distance between eye and ear opening, and nearly 

 one and one-half times diameter of eye; anterior part of head 

 with a longitudinal groove ; ear opening very small, longitudinally 

 oval; legs short, the foreleg reaches not quite halfway in the 

 distance between axilla and groin; fingers and toes moderately 

 elongated, free, the inner digit well developed ; eleven or twelve 

 subdigital lamellae under middle finger, fifteen or sixteen under 

 middle toe ; lamellse on outer third of toe divided by a longitudinal 

 groove; upper part of body and underside of neck covered with 

 granular scales, which are somewhat larger on snout; scales 

 on belly larger, juxtaposed; rostral quadrangular; nostril sur- 

 rounded by rostral, first supralabial, and three nasals ; the supra- 

 nasals bordering rostral separated from each other by two small 

 scales; thirteen to fourteen upper labials; twelve to thirteen 

 lower labials; mental small, triangular, smaller than adjacent 

 labials; chin shields distinctly enlarged, not arranged in rows 

 but of variable size and toward back gradually changing into the 

 smaller neck scales ; tail, in cross section, nearly circular, slender, 

 sharply swollen at base, regularly covered with transverse rows 

 of smaller granular scales, which do not form distinct annula- 

 tions. 



Color, — Above gray-brown, with darker clouded markings, 

 and on either side a dorsolateral row of about ten small, round 

 white dots; lips and underside of body dirty white or with 

 brownish markings or fine brown dots. 



Measurements of Lepidodactylus brevipes Boettger. 



mm. 

 Total length 73 



Length of head 9 



Width of head 6.75 



Length of body 30 



Foreleg 9 



Hind leg 14 



Tail 34 



Remarks. — This rare species apparently has not been taken 

 again. The type locality is *Thilippines,'' probably Samar. 



LEPIDODACTYLUS PLANICAUDUS Stejneger 



Lepidodactylus planicaudus Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 28 

 (1905) 348. 



Description of species, — (After Stejneger). Closely allied to 

 Lepidodactylus lugubris, but tail much more depressed, broader, 

 less tapering, with a lateral, flaplike, free margin and less distinct 

 verticillate arrangement of the caudal scales; digits wider in 



