LEIOLOPISMA 





Measurements of Leiolopisma semperi (Peters).' 





Total length, tip of tail missing 



mm. 



115 



Tip of snout to vent 



46 



Tip of snout to foreleg 



17 



Axilla to groin 



26 



Foreleg 



13 



Hind leg 



18.5 



« From No. 716 E. H. Taylor collection. 





211 



Remarks. — This species is common in western Mindanao, 

 living in old stumps and hollow trees, rarely concealing itself 

 under vines and leaves as does L. pulchellum, and is very much 

 more shy and retiring. Females give birth to two young at a 

 time. The markings on the embryos of 35 millimeters are 

 practically identical with those in the adults; the largest 

 specimen, a gravid female, measures 50 millimeters from snout 

 to vent. 



The species was founded on three specimens collected in Min- 

 •danao by Semper, and a fourth, young, specimen from Cami- 

 guin.* It is confined to the Philippines and known only from 

 the type localities and Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao. 



LEIOLOPISMA VULCANIUM (Girard) 



Lipinia vulcania Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (1857) 



196; U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp. (1858) 254. 

 LygosoTYia vulcanium Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 255; 



Trans. Zool. Soc. London 12 (1886) 42. 



Description of species. — (After Girard.) Head depressed, 

 rather subconcave in interocular region ; snout short, subacute, 

 declivous; rostral widened; no supranasals; frontonasal quite 

 large, subquadrangular, forming a broad rostral suture; pre- 

 frontals large, subrhomboid, in contact medially; frontal 

 elongate, sublanceolate, tapering behind to an acute angle, ex- 

 tending back beyond middle of supraocular region ; frontoparie- 

 tals and interparietal distinct ; parietals forming a suture behind 

 interparietal ; four supraoculars, first and fourth longest, second 

 and third broadest; nostril pierced in middle of nasal; latter 

 followed by two vertical elongated frenals; six upper labials, 

 third, fourth, and fifth bordering orbit; four lower labials; 

 mental moderate; temporals slightly enlarged, that bordering 

 parietals largest; two subequal preoculars; ear opening large, 

 subcircula'r, without lobules, tympanum somewhat sunk, though 



Probably the island off the north coast of Mindanao by that name. 



