122. TYPHLOGEOPHIS. Bd1 
broader than long, shorter than the parictals; eye extremely 
minute ; supraocular very small, confluent with the postocular; no 
preocular; four upper labials, second and fourth largest, second 
and third entering the eye; first lower labial in contact with its 
fellow behind the symphysial ; two pairs of chin-shields, in contact 
with each other. Body extremely slender. Scales in 18 rows. 
Ventrals 300-320; anal entire; subcaudals 13-14. Tail obtuse, 
rounded at the end. Blackish, with a few yellowish (red?) spots 
along each side of the body and a pair at the base of the tail.? 
Total length 285 millim. ; tail 10. . 
Borneo. 
a. © (V. 320; C. 18). Borneo. (Type.) 
b. 2 (V. 800; C. 14). Matang. 
The following species is doubtful :-— 
Catamaria caTenata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1854, 
p. 287. 
Frontal almost as large as the parietals. Scales in 13 rows. 
Ventrals 187; subcaudals 41. Predominant colour dusky above, 
formed by minute black specks upon a pale ground-tint ; below pale 
buff and marked with lateral series of square black spots; four 
black lines throughout above, the upper bordering a pale medial 
streak, which is simple upon the tail, but along the body forms a 
concatenation of elongate oval spots; an imperfect whitish-buff 
collar, and similar marks before and behind the eye. 
Assam. 
122. TYPHLOGEOPHIS. 
Typhlogeophis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 77. 
Maxillary teeth 8, subequal; mandibular teeth subequal. Head 
not distinct from neck; eye concealed under the ocular shield: no 
supraocular; nostril pierced in a minute nasal; internasals small ; 
no loreal or preeocular; no temporals, the parietals in contact with ° 
the labials. Body cylindrical; scales smooth, without apical pits, 
in 15 rows. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. 
Philippine Islands. 
1. Typhlogeophis brevis. (Prate XX. fig. 3.) 
Typhlogeophis brevis, Giinth. 1. e. 
Snout rather pointed ; rostral very small, nearly as deep as broad, 
just visible from above; suture between the internasals about haif 
the length of that between the preefrontals ; frontal small, as long 
as broad, shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, half 
as long as the parietals ; five upper labials, fourth in contact with the 
ocular, fifth very large; two pairs of chin-shields, anterior largest. 
