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Genus TYPHLOPS" Oppel. 



1811. Typhlops Oppel, Ordn. Rept., p. 54 (type, T. lumbricalis ) . 



1843. AspidorJiynchus Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 24 (type, Typhlops eschrichtii 



Schlegel). 

 1843. Pseudotyphlops FiTziNdER, Syst. Rept., p. 24 (type, Typhlops polygrannni- 



cus Schlegel). 



1843. RamphotypMops Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 24 (type, Typhlops multilineatus 



Schlegel) 



1844. Ophthalmidium Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., VI, p. 262 (type, 0. 



longissimum) . 



1844. Onychocephalus Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., VI, p. 272 (type, 0. 



delalandii). 



1845. ArgyropMs Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 136 (type, A. bicolor). 



1845. Anilios Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 135 (type, A. australis) (not Anilius 



Oken, 1816). 

 1845. Meditoria Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 139 (type, Typhlops nasutus). 

 1845. Onychophis Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 132 (type, O.franklinii). 



The genus Typhlops, of which only one species of wide distribution 

 enters our territorial limits in the extreme south, is a large one widely 

 distributed over the tropical and subtropical countries of both the 

 eastern and the western hemisphere. Only a few species, however, 

 occur in America. 



TYPHLOPS BRAMINUS ^ (Daudin). 

 AMAGAKXJ OR MEKU HABTJ. 



1803. Eryx hraminus Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., VII, p. 279 (based on Russell's Ind. 

 Serp., I, pi. XLiii; type-locality, Vizagapatam, India). — Typhlops hraminus 

 CuviER, Regne An'im., 2 ed., II, 1829 (p. 73).— Jan, Icon. Ophid. (p. 12), 

 livr. 3, 1864, pis. iv and v, fig. 16 c (East Indies). — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. 

 Brit. Mus., I, 1893, p. 16 (South Asia; Indian Ocean islands; Africa S. 

 of equator). — ^Wall, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, p. 85 (Formosa; 

 Hongkong) . 



1820. Tortrix russelii Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph., p. 84 (based on Russell). 



1845. Argyrophis tnmcahis Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.. p. 138 (type-locality, 

 Philippines; tj^jes in Brit. Mus. ; Cuming, collector). 



1845. Argyrophis bramicus Gray , Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 138 {lapsus for hraminus). 



1845. Onychocephalus capensis Smith, IUus., Zool. S. Afr., Rep. (pi. li, fig. 3; pi. 

 Liv, figs. 9-16) (type-locality. Cape of Good Hope; types in Brit. Mus.). 



1860. ? Ophthalmidium tenue Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 497 (type- 

 locality, Hongkong, China). 



1863. Typhlops inconspicuiis Jan. Elenco Sist. Ofid., p. 11 {nomen nudum ; Mada- 

 gascar). 



1882. Typhlops (Typhlops) euproctus Boettger, Zool. Anz., 1882, p. 479 (type- 

 locality, Nossi-Be; type in Mus. Senckenberg. ; A. Stumpff, collector). 



1891. ? Typhlops sp. Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, p. 68 (Miyakoshima). 



Description (figs. 232-235). — Science College Museum, Tokyo; 

 Okinawa shima, Riukiu; Nishi, collector. Snout rounded, moder- 



aFrom ru^Ao?, blind; co^, eye. 



b Signifying Brahmin, a Hindu priest. 



c See this work, figs. 232-235. 



