252 



LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Description of species, — (Described from an unnumbered 

 specimen in Santo Tomas Museum, Manila; locality "Filipinas.") 

 Rostral very much broader than deep, not touching frontonasal ; 

 internasals large, broadly in contact behind rostral and forming 

 their longest suture with frontonasal ; latter much broader than 

 deep, in contact with one frenal, and with frontal at a single 

 point; prefrontals large, minutely separated, wider than deep; 

 frontal longer than wide, rather pointed in front, touching two 

 supraoculars; two frontoparietals, a little wider than deep, 

 broadly in contact behind frontal; two very elongate parietals 

 lying diagonally, nearly three times as long as wide, forming a 

 suture behind interparietal; latter longer than broad; a pair 

 of nuchals, narrow and elongate ; a large, elongate temporal bor- 

 ders parietal; nasal extremely small, only a ring about nostril; 



Fig. 49. Brachymeles bicolor (Gray) ; a, head, dorsal view; b, head, lateral vie-w ; c, chin: 



X2. 



a postnasal of nearly same size; two large frenals, first higher 

 than wide, second nearly square; a preocular directly in front 

 of eye; five supraoculars, second longest, and arranged as in 

 other members of the genus, two in contact with frontal; a 

 few small scales below orbit, above labials; six superciliaries ; 

 six upper labials, first largest, not touching internasal, fourth 

 under eye, first four of nearly same size ; two or three scales in 

 temporal region enlarged ; six lower labials ; mental broader than 

 deep, rather rectangular; postmental single, wider than deep; 

 first pair of chin shields in contact, wider than second pair; 

 latter small, separated by three scales (like the arrangement in 

 B. schadenbergi) ; ear opening greatly reduced ; twenty-eight 

 rows of scales around body ; anals not or scarcely enlarged ; legs 

 small, five fingers and toes present, all clawed; lamellae below 



