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* Tail short. The rostral large, broad, oblong, nearly half as ivide 

 as the head, obscurely keeled in the middle of the front. The 

 first croum-shield (frontal P ) the largest, with its side-angles be- 

 hind the tips of the nasal. 



Barrow's Clawed Snake. Onychophis Barrowii. 



Black, back irregularly marbled and spotted with pale brown ; 

 chin and beneath pale brown ; head-shields black, with a narrow 

 yellow subraarginal line ; scales smooth, palei-edged in front, ra- 

 ther small, in many longitudinal rows ; rostral rather bluntly keel- 

 ed in the middle of the front, concave beneath ; the front central 

 crown-shield largest, 6-sided ; tail very short, apex incurved. 



a. In spirits. India ? Presented by Sir John Barrow. 



Bowdich's Clawed Snake. Onychophis punctata. Acontias 

 punctatus, Xertc/i, (M^^S. 5. M. 1816). Bowdich, Africa. Ty- 

 phlops Eschrichtii, Schlegel, Abbild. 37, t. 32,/. 13, 16 ? 



Pale brown ; each of the scales with a squarish white spot ; 

 head-shields pale brown ; the first central crown-shield much the 

 largest, rather crescent-shaped ; the rostral very obscurely keeled 

 in front, rather concave below. 



a. In spirits. Fantee, Afnca. Presented by T. E. Bowdich, Esq. 



** Tail elongate. Rostral moderate, oblong, erect, about half the 

 width of the head, keeled in the middle of the front. 



The Olive Clawed Snake. Onychophis olivaceus. 



Dark olive ; upper lip and beneath yellowish ; scales of the 

 back yellow-edged in front; head blackish, shields rather paler 

 edged ; rostral moderate, about one third the width of the head, 

 rounded above, convex on the sides, slightly keeled, horny and 

 bent down in the centre of the front ; the central crown-shields 

 equal, the two first rounded and the third rather truncated behind, 

 rather the widest; the two shields over the eye-shield equal in 

 size; tail elongate, cylindrical, 4 or 5 times as long as broad, apex 

 conical. 



a. In spirits. Philippines. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



Cuming's Clawed Snake. Onychophis Cumingii. 



Pale olive or blackish grey, rather paler beneath ; head rather 

 pale; head-shields closely and minutely punctulated; the rostral 

 moderate, rounded above, straight on the sides, about one third the 

 width of the head; the central crown-shields unequal, rounded be- 

 hind, the first largest, broad, the second smallest, and the third or 

 hinder intermediate in size ; tail subcylindrical, elongate, four or 

 five times as long as broad, apex rather incurved. 



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