SCINCID^ 153 



Measurements of Varanus cumingi Martin. 



mm. 



Total length 520 



Snout to vent 205 



Tail 315 



Snout to eye 23 



Snout to foreleg 84 



Axilla to groin 87 



Foreleg 66 



Hind leg 86 



Length of head 39 



Width of head 22 



Variation. — The measurements given are for the largest spec- 

 imen of the seven in my collection. The smallest specimen has 

 a total length of 305 millimeters. All agree fairly well in mark- 

 ings and color. Sometimes the yellow spots are larger with 

 black centers, the legs dotted with yellow, and the digits barred 

 with yellow; three specimens have an area in the occipital re- 

 gion filled with minute scales similar to Giinther's figure. 



Remarks. — Whether this species grows to a size as large as 

 the other Philippine forms I cannot say, but I do not believe 

 it reaches the size of V. salvator or V. nuchalis. This species 

 is common in Mindanao; it has not been found in other islands. 



SCINCID^ 



Scincidae, part., Gray, Ann. Phil. II 10 (1825) 201; Boulenger, Ann. 

 & Mag, Nat. Hist. V 14 (1884) 120; Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 

 130. 



^Tongue moderately long, free and feebly nicked in front, 

 covered with imbricate scale-like papillse. Dentition pleuro- 

 dont; teeth conical, bicuspid, or with sphseroidal or compressed 

 crowns; the new teeth hollow out the base of the old ones. 

 Pterygoid teeth may be present. 



'Traemaxillary bones two, sometimes incompletely separated; 

 nasal double; frontal single or double; parietal single; post- 

 orbital and postfrontotemporal arches complete, osseous; inter- 

 orbital septum and columella cranii well developed; infraorbital 

 fossa present, bounded by the maxillary, the transverse bone, 

 the palatine, and often also by the pterygoid. Skull with bony 

 dermal plates over-roofing the supratemporal fossa. 



"Limbs present or absent; pectoral and pelvic arches con-- 

 stahtly present. Clavicle dilated and usually perforated proxim- 

 ally; interclavicle cruciform. Ossified abdominal ribs are absent. 



