210 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



posterior reaching back beyond middle of supraocular region, 

 not as wide as supraocular region; frontoparietals distinct, 

 longer than wide; interparietal moderate, as wide as frontal; 

 parietals large, forming a broad suture behind interparietal; 

 four supraoculars, anterior elongate, cone-shaped, second widest ; 

 nasal longer than high, the nostril pierced near the middle; 

 two frenals, much longer than high ; two subequal preoculars ; 

 seven upper labials, fifth and sixth bordering orbit ; five to seven 

 lower labials ; four or five rather enlarged temporal scales ; men- 

 tal larger than rostral, followed by one unpaired postmental and 

 three paired chin shields, only first pair in contact, second separ- 



FiG. 34. Leiolopisma semperi (Peters) ; a, head, dorsal view; b, head, lateral view; c, chin; 



X 3. 



ated by one scale; four or five pairs of nuchals; eye moderate, 

 larger than auricular opening, a little closer to latter than tip of 

 snout ; no lobules on anterior border of auricular opening ; lower 

 eyelid with a transparent disk; twenty-four scale rows around 

 body, dorsals largest; adpressed hind leg scarcely reaches wrist 

 of adpressed foreleg; fourth toe distinctly longer than third; 

 digits rather flattened on basal portion and compressed on distal 

 portion, about twenty-four lamellae below, the sixteen basal 

 lamellae padlike; tail cylindrical, tapering to a point; preanals 

 distinctly enlarged. 



Color in life. — Above brownish olive to golden brown, with 

 two broad black-brown lines beginning at the supraocular region 

 which continue a short distance, then gradually narrow and 

 almost wholly disappear, or continue as minute dotted lines to 

 some distance on tail; two other brown lines begin on tip of 

 snout, and continue through eye, above ear and arm ; then they 

 narrow to dotted lines on sides ; lower surfaces greenish, usually 

 brilliantly iridescent. 



