108 BARBOUR — SOLOMON ISLAND REPTILES Pv^l^Vlf ' 



oKvaceus with " an extra prominent snout." I did not send her 

 profile sketches, but only dorsal views to show especially the 

 excrescences which, she informs me, are more marked than in 

 any of the examples in the British Museum. Had I sent her a 

 profile of this Solomon Island specimen, she would possibly 

 agree to my estabHshing a race on the following diagnosis: — 



Similar to true T. o. olivaceus from the Philippines, which has 

 been recorded also from the Moluccas and Australia, but with 

 a much longer and more sharply produced rostral scale and a 

 much more conspicuously developed ornamentation of ex- 

 crescences. 



It is not improbable that large series will show that other 

 geographic races occur within this species for, in general, 

 Typhlops individuals from one locahty do not vary extensively 

 in the configuration of the cephalic shields. 



Typhlops cumingii mansuetus subsp. nov. 



Plate VI 



Type, M. C. Z., no. 14,270, from Keri Keri, San Crist6bal, Solomon 

 Islands; W. M. Mann collector. 



Similar to T. c. cumingii from the Philippine Islands, but with 

 numerous fine warty excrescences on the snout, which lacks the 

 narrow, subcrescentic, sharp, transverse edge described for the 

 type. The rostral is somewhat wider, and the prefrontal seems 

 to be somewhat larger, than in the type which Miss Proctor has 

 very kindly sketched for me. 



I sent Miss Proctor drawings of the upper surfaces of the head 

 in this and in the preceding species. I wish I had sent her profile 

 views as weU, as the differences are thus more visible. For her 

 kindness in making comparisons and sketches I wish to thank 

 her most heartily. It is also only fair to Miss Proctor to say that 



