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without lobules. Scales in twenty rows around the body, smooth or with 

 faint indications of keels, broader on back and tail, very broad below the 

 tail. Four enlarged preanal shields. Limbs pentadactyl, hinder reaching 

 three-fifths of the distance to the axilla. 



Light yellowish brown, edge of head plates brown, with keel -like marks of 

 brown on the median dorsal rows of scales, with a white band from the supra- 

 oculars on each side of the body, distinctly and regularly edged by a band of 

 brown on the back and another through the eye to the base of the tail. 

 Lower parts of flanks and upper portion of limbs and toes mottled with small 

 spots of brown and of white. Entire ventral surface white. 



Cooktown ; Mr. Olive. 



Ablepharus heterurus, sp. nov. 



A larger species than A. eximius, with the head less rounded. Head mod- 

 erate ; snout pointed, rostral not projecting. Eye incompletely surrounded by 

 granules, two to three small scales representing the upper eyelid. Rostral in 

 contact with frontonasal; frontal less than half as large as the latter and widely 

 separated from it, in contact with two supraorbitals. Four supraorbitals, second 

 largest. Frontoparietals and interparietal fused and forming a plate about four 

 times as large as the frontal. Frontal and frontoparietals meeting in a short 

 transverse suture. Four supraciliaries, anterior elongate. Parietals large, 

 meeting behind the interparietal. A pair of very large nuchals, followed 

 by a smaller pair, back of which the width gradually decreases on the neck. 

 No supranasals ; a suture from the nostril backward in the nasal. Five 

 labials anterior to the large subocular. Earopening small, without lobules. 

 Scales smooth or feebly keeled, in twenty-four to twenty-six rows around the 

 body, those of belly and flanks subequal, those of the back and tail much 

 larger, those of the median subcaudal row largest. Tail longer than head and 

 body. 



Lustrous greenish olive ; with a rather indistinct stripe of greenish white on 

 each side of the back, irregularly edged with somewhat fused spots of brown, 

 from supraorbital to tail; back, flanks, limbs, digits, and tail freckled with 

 small spots of brown and of white. Ventral surfaces greenish white to 

 greenish yellow, more greeii under chin and throat. Mental and rostral 

 white. The distal one-third or two-fifths of the tail is colorless in alcoholic 

 specimens. Probably it was red or j'ellow in life ; the contrast with the 

 darker colors of the anterior part of the tail and the body is very marked. 



Apaiang, Gilbert Islands ; Andrew Garrett. 



Typhlops Wiedii Pet. 



The colors of T. Wiedii are described as "buff above, yellowish inferiorly." 

 The form represented in this collection is brown on the back, with ten longi- 

 tudinal streaks of light color on the edges of the scales, and is whitish on the 



