XX. SOME NEW AND INTERESTING 



BATRACHIA AND LIZARDS FROM 



INDIA, CEYIvON AND BORNEO. 



(Plate XV.) 



By N. Annandale, D.Sc, F.A.S B., Superintendent, Indian 



Museum. 



The species described or commented on in this paper are rep- 

 resented by specimens recently presented to the Indian Museum 

 or collected by members of its staff. 



BATRACHIA. 



Fam. CAECILIIDAE. 



Since Mr. Boulenger published his volume on the Reptiles 

 and Batrachia in the Fauna of British India (1890) the discovery 

 by Col. Alcock ^ of a species of Herpele from Assam has not only 

 added a very interesting form to the fauna but has also greatly 

 extended the known range of the genus, which had previously 

 been recorded only from Africa and America. The only other 

 addition as yet made to the Indian list in the group is a new variety 

 of the widely distributed Oriental species Ichthyophis glutinosus 

 {I.g. var. tricolor) described from Travancore by myself.* I have 

 here to add, from the southern part of the Malabar Zone, a new 

 species of the South Indian and African genus Uraeotyphlus. 



Uraeotyphlus menoni, sp. nov. 



Teeth moderate, both rows on the mandible well developed. 



Head triangular, short, with the snout rounded; snout about 

 as long as the distance between the eyes, by no means prominent. 



Tentacle below and slightly in advance of the nostril. 



Eyes distinct. 



Body cylindrical, slender, with about 170 rings; circular folds 

 narrowly interrupted in the midventral Hne on the fore part of 

 the body, alternating with longer and shorter interruptions on the 

 hind part. 



1 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) XIV. p. 271, pi. vii (i9o4)- 



2 Rec. Ind. Mus. Ill, p. 186 (1909). 



