BRACHYMELES 255 



Variation. — The cotype in Santo Tomas Museum is in the 

 same container, and is probably from the same locality. Its 

 measurements are included in the preceding table. 



The two specimens agree very well save that in the cotype the 

 scale dividing the first pair of chin shields is smaller, and the 

 second pair is divided by another scale. This is probably the 

 normal condition. While no locality is given, I am assured by 

 the director of the museum that the specimens are from Nueva 

 Vizcaya, Luzon. 



Remarks. — Superficially this species resembles Lygosoma 

 lineatum Gray, and thus the specimens were found labeled. In 

 common with the latter, Brachymeles elerse has four digits on 

 the legs, and the coloring and markings are strikingly similar; 

 but here the resemblance ceases. It has no close affinity in the 

 genus. 



BRACHYMELES BURKSI Taylor 

 Plate 22, fig. 5 

 Brachymeles burksi Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 275. 



Description of species. — (From the type. No. 700, E. H. Taylor 

 collection ; collected at Sumagui, on the Liddell Plantation, eastern 

 coast of Mindoro, May 4, 1916, by E. H. Taylor.) General ap- 

 pearance rather wormlike; head pointed bluntly; rostral large, 

 visible above for nearly half its length, rather broadly in con- 

 tact with frontonasal; nostril in a minute nasal between first 

 labial, supranasal, and rostral ; supranasal in contact with largest 

 f renal and first labial; scales on point of snout thick- 

 ened and of lighter color; frotonasal a little broader 

 than long, narrowly in contact with frontal, which is 

 slightly longer than broad, and in contact with first 

 and second supraoculars; prefrontals rather rectan- fig. 51. ^ra- 

 gular, touching two frenals, first superciliary, and first I^^Z^^t^- 

 supraocular; four supraoculars, second widest, last lor; chin 

 smallest; four or five superciliaries ; frontoparietals shields; 

 somewhat rectangular, little larger than prefrontals, 

 touching two supraoculars; interparietal a little longer than 

 broad, narrowly in contact with frontal; parietals more than 

 twice as long as wide, in contact behind interparietal, touching 

 two supraoculars, two temporals, and an elongate nuchal; two 

 frenals, and a small preocular before eye; no postnasal; six 

 upper labials, fourth entering orbit ; six lower labials ; mental 

 moderate, thickened, wider than high; an unpaired postmental, 

 followed by three pairs of chin shields, none of which is in 

 contact, second pair widest ; two temporals between parietal and 

 sixth labial; twenty-four scale rows; two distinctly enlarged 



