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Remarks. — This species stands much in the same relation to 

 B. burksi that B. schadenbergi does to B. gracilis. The following 

 differences between the two species are noted: The mental is 

 larger in B. honitse, the arrangement of the chin shields is es- 

 sentially different, and the postmental is in contact with a single 

 labial, instead of with two labials as in B. burksi. Several 

 other minor differences are evident on a comparison of the two 

 species. 



As compared with the specimen reported by Boulenger the 

 following variations are evident: The distance between end 

 of snout and foreleg is contained 4.8 in distance between fore 

 and hind legs instead of 4.5 times ; there are two more rows of 

 scales about body. In fact, the specimen described by Boulenger 

 more closely resembles B. burksi than B. bonitx. Unfortunately, 

 Boulenger failed to mention the submandibular scalation, which 

 is very important in determining these species. 



BRACHYMELES VERMIS Taylor 



Brachymeles vermis Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 13 (1918) 255. 



Description of species. — (From the type, No. 2000, Bureau of 

 Science collection; collected at Bubuan, Sulu, 1917, by E. H. 



Fig. 53. Brachymeles vermis Taylor, from Sulu ; a, head, lateral view ; 6, head, dorsal view 

 (normal) ; c, chin; d, head, dorsal view (variation of Papahag specimen) ; X 4. 



Taylor.) Rostral about as high as wide, bending back over 

 point of snout, visible above by more than half its height; 

 frontonasal broader than deep, broadly in contact with rostral, 

 narrowly with frontal; prefrontal wider than long, narrowly 

 separated, touching two f renals, first superciliary and first supra- 

 ocular; frontal slightly longer than wide, in contact with two 



