236 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



nearly the same shape as frontal, but only half as large; parie- 

 tals forming a suture behind it; nasal irregularly rhomboidal, 

 pierced with a round nostril; four supraoculars, first longest; 

 eleven superciliaries ; seven upper labials, fourth to sixth, or 

 fifth and sixth, below orbit, from which they are separated by 

 a series of scales; five lower labials; mental large, with an un- 

 divided postmental, and three pairs of chin shields; tympanum 

 smaller than eye opening, superficially placed; body surrounded 

 by thirty rows of smooth scales, dorsals largest, laterals small- 

 est; a pair of enlarged preanals; foreleg brought forward 

 reaches halfway between eye and ear; third and fourth fingers 

 equally long ; hind leg reaches wrist ; subdigital lamellse smooth ; 

 tail compressed; a little longer than head and body. 



Color. — Brown above, variegated with darker, and with bluish 

 white spots arranged in longitudinal and transverse series ; base 

 of arm, axilla, and lower surfaces reddish fiesh color. 



Measurements of Tropidophorus leucospilos (Peters).* 



mm. 



Total length 118 



Head 12 



Width of head 8 ' 



Body 43 



Foreleg 15 



Hind leg 21 



Tail 63 



Remarks. — This species is apparently rare. The type is from 

 Luzon (locality not stated), collected by Meyer, and I believe no 

 specimen has been found elsewhere. It is a clearly defined spe- 

 cies and diiTers from other Philippine species of the genus by 

 the smooth head scales and the absence of keels on the body. 



TROPIDOPHORUS GRAYI Gunther 

 Plate 21, fig. 1 



Tropidophorus grayi Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1861) 189. 

 Tropidophorus cocincinensis (non Dumeril and Bibron) Gray, Cat. 



Liz. (1845) 101. 

 Enoplosaurus insignis Sauvage, Bull. iSoc. Philom. VII 3 (1879) 211. 

 Tropidophorus grayi Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 364; 



de Rooij, Rept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 279. 



Description of species. — (From No. 661, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected on Mount Mariveles, Bataan, 1914, by E. H. 

 Taylor.) Head broadened in temporal region, distinct from 

 neck, upper head scales very rugose, and strongly striated ; ros- 

 tral narrowly visible from above, twice as broad as high ; f ronto- 



* From Boulenger's Catalogue. 



