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almost completely so). The scales of the infraorbital semicircles are 

 much less keeled. The profile is slightly flatter, the head slightly nar- 

 rower, the muzzle more acuminate. 



Leptotyphlops bilineata (Schlegel). 

 Schlegel based this species on examples from Martinique collected by 

 Plee. Dum^ril et Bibron, a very little later, mentioned specimens in the 

 Paris Museum from Martinique and from Guadeloupe collected by Plee 

 and by Guyon. The Guadeloupe record is probably correct, the Marti- 

 ni(iue record is valueless until confirmed, although Boulenger states that 

 there is a Martinique specimen in the British Museum. As no other data 

 are given it is not unlikely that this was one of the Plee specimens dis- 

 tributed by the Paris Museum. The British ^Museum has a specimen 

 from Barbados, given by Colonel Fielden. It is interesting now to record 

 a specimen from St. Lucia collected July 5, 1914, by Dr. A. G. Ruthven 

 and by him given in exchange to the M. C. Z. The species, which is 

 confined to the Lesser Antilles, will probably be found to have a consid- 

 erable range through the islands. 



Typhlops lutnbricalis Linne. 

 Noble heard from all the local observers of the Guadeloupean fauna 

 that this species had become excessively rare if it was not already extir- 

 pated. It is well worth recording that the exterminating agent was not 

 in this case the always culpable mongoose alone, but largely the giant 

 toad, Bufo marinus (Linne). This creature has been introduced by man 

 in comparatively recent times into almost all of the islands, and is said 

 to snap up greedily every Typhlops which it sees. As is well known the 

 blind snakes sometimes crawl about at dusk or after showers as do am- 

 phisbaenians and earthworms. With the material so kindly entrusted to 

 me by Doctor Ruthven, I find a single little blind snake from St. Croix. 

 It is a pallid creature quite different in color from any lumbricalis which 

 I have ever caught or seen. I can not, however, find any characters for 

 separation and I am of the opinion that this little snake is albinistic, 

 although the eyes show a trace of pigmentation. Albinism in reptiles is 

 rare but, of course, well known. I remember once a native bringing me 

 a completely albinistic Amyda. It was in Java and I could examine the 

 beast but could not kill and preserve it, for such beasts are Kramat, and 

 venerated, and this ancient superstition applied even to the extremely 

 ugly white water buiTalos. 



Herpetodryas carinatus (Linne). 

 In my West Indian Herpetelogy (p. 331) I discussed the occurrence of 

 the golden tree snake upon Guadeloupe, whence Boulenger had recorded 

 a specimen in the British Museum. I suggested that the locality might 

 be incorrect. There can now be no doubt that this is the case, since Mr. 

 Noble's careful inquiries made in all parts of the island make it quite 

 certain that no such snake ever occurred there. 



Drymobius boddaerti (Sentzen). 

 Writing previously (1. c. p. 330) I stated that I was unable to find the 

 series of Granadian examples in this Museum from which the individual 



