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scales, firmly adherent; head not distinct from neck; none of the teeth 
are enlarged; ventral scales not larger than dorsal; no mental groove ; 
upper labials, four. 
Of this genus India and the Eastern world furnish 
8 species, viz. : 
No. 1. Typhlina lineata. Wagler. 
2. Typhlops nigro-albus. Dum. & Bib. 
3. : Horsfeldii. Gray. 
4, ss bothryorhyncus. Griinther. 
5. . striolatus. Peters. 
6. - Siamensis. Griinther. 
ie es Braminus. Dana, Cuvier. 
This latter species is the Rondoo Talooloo Pam of Dr. 
P. Russell, and is described as follows, under two varieties, 
Vizi: , 
Called R. T. Pam, or ‘‘ double-headed snake.’? Abdominal squame, 
151; subcaudal, 120 = 271. Head not broader than the neck, ovate, 
obtuse, convex, covered with nine lamine of unusual shapes; mouth 
contracted, marginal, maxillary, and pterygoid rows of teeth in upper 
jaw; eyes lateral, small, not prominent; nostrils close, and very small ; 
trunk cylindrical and of nearly equal thickness from head to tail; scales 
small, orbicular, imbricate, each with a black dot upon its apex; length 
104 inches, diameter less than 2 inch; tail 44 inches; has a blunt point 
and very little taper; color reddish-brown, part of the tail is cineritious 
or very pale blue; the squame are glossy white. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This variety is very quick in its movements, and, if loosened 
on the sand, it burrows into it instantly, and is probably 
called two-headed from the fact that it moves forward and 
backward with equal facility.* 
Another variety, called R. T. Pam, in Vizagapatam is 6 inches in 
length ; head only distinguishable upon close inspection, as the body is 
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* For this reason it should be classed among the Amphisbene. 
