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Dimensions of type : — 



Total length . . . . . . lOO mm. 



Length of head and body . . 

 Length of head 

 Breadth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb 



35 



8 



4 



9 



Type. — No. 16900 in the Indian Museum register of Reptiles 

 and Batrachia. 



Habitat. — Two specimens were taken by Capt. the Hon. M. de 

 Courcy, one at Rotung (1,300 ft.), the other at Upper Rotung {ca. 

 2,000 ft,). 



OPHIDIA. 



Mr. Kemp asks me to state that a very large proportion of 

 the snakes in his collection were captured by the officers and men 

 of the 32nd Sikh Pioneers at the instance of Capt. the Hon. M. de 

 Courcy. They were found while road-making, chiefl}^ in Decem- 

 ber and January, and were probably hibernating st the time. 

 Other snakes were presented by Capt. J. S. O'Niell, Capt. F. H. 

 Stewart and Capt. R. S. Kennedy of the Indian Medical Service. 



Fam. TYPHLOPIDAE. 

 19. Typhlops diardi, vSchleg. 



Boulenger, Fauna^ p. 238, fig. 70. 



A considerable number of specimens of this common Hima- 

 layo-Burmese species were taken at Kobo, Pasighat, Janakmukh 

 and Balek, several of them having been found crawling about on 

 the surface in camp after rain. 



T. diardi occurs all over Assam and Burma and is also found 

 in the Himalayas, vSiam and other adjacent countries. 



20. Typhlops tephrosoma, Wall. 



Wall, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, xviii, p. 314. 



A small specimen taken by the 32nd Sikh Pioneers at Janak- 

 mukh agrees well with Major Wall's description of the tvpe from 

 the Khasi Hills. 



21. Typhlops divcrsiceps, sp. nov. 

 (Plate V, fig. I.) 



This species belongs to the same group as T. braminus and 

 T. beddomii, but the anterior nasal is not in contact with the prae- 

 ocular and the posterior nasals do not meet behind the rostral. 



Snout rounded, projecting. Nostril lateral, nasal completely 

 divided ; rostral barely reaching the level of the eyes, not half as 

 wide as snout; upper head-scales about twice as large as body- 



