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visible; thirty scales around middle of body, smooth, subequal, 

 rather smaller on flanks; two large preanals; legs slender, 

 rather weak, not meeting when adpressed; digits slender, com- 

 pressed, with large smooth lamellse beneath; tail as long as 

 head and body. 



Color. — Light brownish above, with darker specks; head uni- 

 form brown ; a lateral dark brown streak, interrupted or speck- 

 led with whitish or yellowish, extends from eye to a certain 

 distance along tail; lower surface light uniform brown. 



Remarks, — The type specimen (which is the only one known) 

 was discovered at Caldera, Zamboanga, Mindanao, by the Wilkes 

 Exploring Expedition. Unfortunately Girard failed to append 

 measurements of the type specimen to his description. Quite 

 probably it is a diminutive species, as most of the other members 

 of the genus are small. In a recent collecting trip in Zamboanga 

 I failed to obtain any trace of this species of Leiolopisma or of 

 the two other species known from Mindanao. 



LEIOLOPISMA PULCHELLUM (Gray) 



Plate 15, fig. 5 



Lipinia pulchella Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 84. 

 Euprepes pulchellus Steindachner, Novara Rept. (1869) 48. 

 Lygosoma pulchellum Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 254, 

 pL 17, fig. 1. 



Description of species. — (Described from thirteen specimens 

 from Mindanao and Luzon.) Head elongate, snout pointed and 

 much flattened, rather wedge-shaped; rostral large, covering 

 entire point of snout; frontonasal large, wider than deep, 

 broadly in contact with rostral, touching nasal and anterior 

 f renal, widely separated from frontal; prefrontals large, longer 

 than wide, broadly in contact medially; interocular region ex- 

 tremely narrow; frontal as long as, or longer than, its distance 

 from end of snout, very much narrowed behind for nearly one- 

 half its length, in contact with three or four supraoculars (one 

 specimen has only two in contact) ; five supraoculars ; fronto- 

 parietals narrow and elongate, with a moderate suture; inter- 

 parietal as large and wide as anterior part of frontal, larger 

 than frontoparietal; parietals forming a suture; four or five 

 pairs of nuchals ; no supranasals ; nostril pierced in nasal ; two 

 f renals longer than high ; two preoculars, lower much the larger ; 

 eight or nine superciliaries ; temporals much enlarged; seven 

 upper labials, fifth below eye ; mental larger than rostral ; five or 

 six lower labials ; auricular opening large, tympanum not deeply 

 sunk; eye large with a transparent disk on lower eyelid; eye 



