SOTES ON SNAKES FROM DARJEELING. 



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Tifpldops jerdon'i ( X 7). 

 Typhlops oligolepis, spec. nov. 

 In the Davjeeling Museum I found a very small Tijphlops, only hh inches 

 long, with the lepidosis so different from any other species yet recorded 

 that I have no hesitation in considering it new to science. To begin with the 

 scales are in 16 rows, fewer by two than in any other recorded species. It is 

 almost certainly the specimen Dr. Seal spoke to me about which he had 

 presented to the Museum, and which he found dead on a road in the 

 Xagri Valley below Darjeeling at an altitude of about 0,000 feet. Several 

 people who saw it discredited the idea of its being a snake at all, and as there 

 is only one Typhlops, viz., this one in the Darjeeling Museum there can be little 

 doubt that it is Dr. Seal's specimen. 



Description. — Snout rounded. Nostrils lateral. Eye very small. Tail with no 

 terminal spine. Cigar — brown above, paler beneath. 



Lepidoslx. Rostral — Broad, more than one-third as broad above as the greatest 



breadth of the head, not extending 

 back to the level of the eyes, but 

 about as far as the posterior edge of 

 the nasal shields. Intemasal, frontal, 

 supraoculars parietals and postoculars 

 subequal. Nasals very large, com- 

 pletely divided, the upper suture pas- 

 sing to the rostral, the lower to the 2nd 

 ,p ji 11 •» labial: largely in contact behind the 



{Much e Ilia Iff fd). rostral; the anterior shield not or 



barely seen above. Prceocidar subequal to ocular ; in contact with the 2nd 

 and 3rd labials. Ocular in contact with the 3rd and 4th labials. Postocular 



