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This curious Ceecilian has been obtained from several different 

 localities in the Peninsula up to an elevation of 4,000 ft. It seems, 

 however, to be very uncommon. 



Distribution. — Mountains of Ceylon, Malabar, Eastern Himalayas, 

 Khasi Hills, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Mentawei 

 Islands, Borneo, Java. 



58. ICTHYOPHIS MONOCHROUS, Blgr. 



Iethyophis monochrous, Blgr., Cat. Batr. Crad., &c, p. 91, pi. iv., 

 fig. 1 ; Kept. Fauna of Brit. Ind., p. 517 ; S, Flower, P. Z. S„ 1896, 

 p. 914 ; P. Z. S., 1899, p. 916. 



This species was until lately known from the Peninsula only by a 

 specimen dug up in a garden in Singapore 1863, and given by Dr. 

 Montgomerie to Cantor. It is now in the British Museum. In April 

 1898, Flower obtained two specimens under a stack of firewood near 

 Maxwell's bungalow on the Larut Hill3, elevation 8,380 feet, and in 

 April this year two examples were brought to me by coolies who were 

 cutting back the banks of a road on the same hills, at 4,000 ft. 



Elsewhere it has been obtained in Borneo, Java, and India (Sikhim, 

 Western Ghauts, Surat, Malabar). 



