BRACHYMELES 251 



than distance from eye to nostril; auricular opening small, 

 about halfway between end of nose and insertion of foreleg; 

 foreleg pressed forward fails to reach auricular opening in large 

 specimens, but does so reach in some younger specimens; front 

 leg followed by a slight lateral depression into which it is 

 usually folded; distance from end of snout to insertion of arm 

 contained in distance from axilla to groin from 2 to 2.6 times 

 (average 2.3) ; length of hind leg contained in this distance 

 from 3 to 4 times (average 3.25) ; limbs pentadactyl, with 

 unicarinate lamellae, six under the longest finger, eight under 

 longest toe; third and fourth toes practically equal, although 

 sometimes fourth is slightly longer, sometimes third; preanal 

 scales slightly enlarged; twenty-six to twenty-eight rows of 

 scales about body (seventeen specimens twenty-eight, three spec- 

 imens twenty-six) ; scales of back part of body frequently dimly 

 tricarinate; tail is 1.1 times length of body. 



Color in life. — Above brown, each scale with a darker brown 

 area, covering eight scale rows ; laterally and ventrally brownish 

 yellow with some lateral scales flecked with the darker brown 

 of the dorsal color ; scales of belly sometimes flecked with brown ; 

 scales under tail usually with darker spots; head and upper 

 labials usually darker brown, with the scales on end of snout 

 lighter. 



Measurements of Brachymeles schadenbergi (Fischer) . 



Total leng-th 



Snout to vent 



Tail 



Snout to foreleg 



Axilla to groin 



Foreleg 



Hind leg 



Remarks. — This species is common in Mindanao. Most of 

 the specimens examined are from Agusan River Valley. The 

 female gives birth to from two to five young. It is a burrowing 

 form, and is usually found under logs or trash. 



BRACHYMELES BICOLOR (Gray) 

 Plate 13, fig. 1, and Plate 22, fig. 3 



Senira hicohr, part. Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 98. 



Brachymeles bicolor Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 3 (1887) 388; 

 CASTo de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 422; Taylor, 

 Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 272, pi. 1, fig. 3; text fig. 3. 



Largest 

 specimens. 



Average of 



eight nearly 



equal-sized 



specimens. 



mm. 



mm. 



220 



206 



112 



99 



108 



106 



31 



29 



71 



64 



13 



12.5 



20 



19 



