16 BULLETIN 151, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Genus PELOMEDUSA Wagler 



PELOMEDUSA GALEATA (Schoepff) 



Tesiudo galeata Schoepff, 1792, Hist. Testud., p. 12, pi. 3, fig. 1. ("Habitat in 

 India orientale, Carolina.")- — Boulenger, 1889, Cat. Chelon., p. 194. — 

 SiEBENROCK, 1909, Zool. Jahrb., supp. 10, pt. 3, p. 561. — Schmidt, 1919, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 39, p. 411, pi. 11, fig. 3; text fig. 1. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 40248) Nairobi, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 40252) Sotik, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 48593) Uganda (Heller) 1911. 



This, the commonest of African fresh-water turtles in the eastern 

 part of the continent, is distinguished from all the others bj'" the 

 absence of any plastral hinge. 



Order SQUAMATA 



Suborder OPHIDIA 



Family TYPHLOPIDAE 



Genus TYPHLOPS Schj|eider 



TYPHLOPS MANDENSIS Stejneger 



Typhlops mandensis Stejnegeu, 1893, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 16, p. 725. — 

 BouLENGER, 1893, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 587. — Loveridge,. 

 1923, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 872. 



Type (U.S.N.M. 20125) Wange, Manda Id., K. C. (Denhardt) 1892. 



The type of this interesting reptile remains imique except for a 

 second specimen which I collected at Morogoro, Tanganyika Terri- 

 tory, in 1917. 



TYPHLOPS PLNCTATUS PUNCTATUS (Leach) 



Acontias pundatus Leach, 1919, in Bowdich, Miss. Ashantee, p. 493. 

 Typhlops pundatus (part) Boulenger, 1893, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 



p. 42. 

 Typhlops pundatus pundatus Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. 50, p. lOG. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 40898) Juja Farm, K. C. (Loring) 1909. 



This example is referable to pundatus in its restricted sense; it 

 possesses 28 scale rows at mid-body and there is a brown spot on 

 each light yellowish scale resulting in a lineolate appearance. Length 

 320 (315 + 5) mm. 



TYPHLOPS SCHLEGELII Bianconi 



Typhlops schlegslii Bianconi, 1S50, Spec. Zjol. Mosamb., p. 13, pi. 3, fig. 2. — 

 Bodl^nger, 1893, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 44. — Stejneger, 1893, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 16, p. 72 5. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 20123-4) Wange, Manda Id., K. C. (Denhardt) 1892. 



These specimens agree with Bianconi's figure of the type from 

 Mozambique in that the praeocular is in contact with the second 



