254 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



BRACHYMELES ELER/E Taylor 



Plate 22, fig. 4 



Brachymeles eleras Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 273; 

 pi. 1, fig. 4, text figs. 4, 5. 



Description of species. — (From the type, an unnumbered 

 specimen in Santo Tomas Museum; collector unknown; labeled, 

 'Tilipinas.'O Rostral but little wider than deep, bending back 

 somewhat over end of snout, broadly in contact with fronto- 

 nasal; supranasals reduced, separated, in contact with first 

 labials ; frontonasal nearly as long as broad, narrowly in contact 

 with frontal; latter longer than broad, produced to a point in 

 front, in contact with two supraoculars; frontoparietals quad- 

 rangular, moderate, separate; frontal touches interparietal 

 which is diamond-shaped; parietals elongate, 

 three times as long as wide; nasal minute, a 

 mere rim around nostril; two frenals, first 

 higher than wide, second almost square; one 

 large preocular; five supraoculars, second 

 Fig. 50. Brachymeles wldest ; six superciHaries ; six upper labials, 

 iTeMs'^oTthe Spe-'ft" ^^st largcst, fourth entering orbit; one pair 

 chin shields of the co- of uuchals prescut ; temporals somewhat en- 

 *^^^' ^ ^- larged, largest bordering parietal ; mental 



quadrangular, wider than deep; one postmental, wider than 

 deep ; first and second pairs of chin shields divided by a single, 

 median, much-enlarged scale, second pair somewhat broader than 

 first pair, third pair divided by three scales ; legs much reduced, 

 each with four diminutive, clawed digits ; ear opening wanting ; 

 two preanals, distinctly enlarged ; eye rather small ; twenty-four 

 scale rows around anterior part of body, twenty-two about 

 middle; hind leg contained about ten times in distance from 

 axilla to groin. 



Color in alcohol — Very light yellowish brown, each scale 

 with a dark brown spot, forming longitudinal dotted lines on 

 each scale row ; dots below smaller and not so distinct as above. 



Measurements of Brachymeles elerse Taylor. 



Total length 

 Snout to vent 

 Width of body 

 Width of head 

 Axilla to groin 

 Snout to foreleg 

 Foreleg 

 Hind leg 



Type. 



Cotype. 



mm. 



mm. 



128 



108 



68 



63 



6 



6 



5.1 



5 



61 



44 



15 



12 



3.5 



3.1 



5.2 



4.6 



