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down the column. Liver extending from the 31st to the 65th gas- 

 trostege. Head flat and pointed. Body vertically compressed 

 throughout; just behind the heart it is 5.5 mm. deep and 8 mm. 

 broad. Tail short, flat, and pointed. 



Habitat. — Heretofore known only by the two type specimens which 

 were captured in Fokien Province, China. 



Oxyrhabdium modestum (Dumeril and Bibron). 



No. 15,235 Cal. Ac. Sci. Philippine Islands. Female; total 

 length 216, tail 42 mm. 



Squamation. — Scales in 15 continuous rows, smooth, without 

 apical pits, broader than long; outer row slightly enlarged and 

 rounded behind. Gastrosteges 163. Anal entire. Urosteges 62 

 pairs. Rostral 1.1 mm. deep, 1 mm. wide; portion visible from 

 above strongly concave and with the borders raised well above the 

 level of the surrounding shields; below it is deeply incised. Nasals 

 divided, the posterior the larger and with raised edges. Internasals 

 .8 mm. long and .6 mm. broad, mutual suture one-third the length 

 of that between the prefrontals. Frontal 3.3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. 

 wide, 2.8 mm. distant from the rostral; facet for supraocular concave. 

 Parietals 3.3 mm. long, 2.5 broad; narrowed behind. Loreal 2.2 mm. 

 long, .8 mm. broad, anterior border in line with the suture between 

 the second and third labial; behind an acute angle between the 

 preocular and the fifth labial. Preocular 1, on each side, .8 mm. 

 long, 1.1 deep. Postoculars 2; superior the wider; inferior narrow 

 and excluding the seventh labial from entering the eye. Temporals 

 anterior 1, twice as wide as broad, inclined downward and forward; 

 posterior 2. Supralabials 8, the fifth and sixth entering the eye; 

 the anterior four are very small, the first one-half the size of the 

 second, the second, third and fourth equal, the eighth the largest 

 being 2.7 mm. long. Mental ver}^ short, rounded behind. Infra- 

 labials right 8, left 9, the additional shield due to the division of the 

 sixth, the fifth the largest. Geneials a single pair, 2.6 mm. long, in 

 contact with five labials. Gular shields in two pairs, shorter than 

 wide; these followed by the first gastrostege, the anterior border of 

 which is below the posterior border of the eye. 



Coloration. — Above uniform iridescent light brown, head a trifle 

 darker, the trace of a nuchal band. Below yellow, line of demarca- 

 tion sharp, on the body along the lower border of the first scale row, 

 on the head along the supralabials. 



Anatomy. — Body laterally compressed, at the middle being 7.8 mm. 

 deep, and 6.5 mm. wide. Head slightly distinct from neck, width 



