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tail twico as long as broad, very obtuse and terminating in a minute 

 point. 18 scales round the body. General colour above shining deep 

 brownish black, t ho base of the scales being somewhat dull black ; sides 

 viniiceous ; paler on the lower parts, which are throughout checkered 

 with white; mouth and the tail below, including the tip, also mostly 

 white. 



Total length 165 millira. 



Andaman Islands, 



88. Typhlops ater. 



Typhlops ater, Schleg. Abhild. p. 39, pi. xxxii. figs. 29-31 (1844); 

 Dum. 8,- Bibv. vi. p. 312 (1844); Peters, Mon. Bed. Ac. I860, 

 p. 263, pi. — . fig. 4 ; Peters Sf Doria, Ann. 3Ius. Genova, xiii. 

 1878, p. 385. 



Anilios ? ater, Grau, Cat. Liz. p. 136 (1845). 



Snout rounded ; nostrils lateral. Eostral elongate, oval, extending 

 to the level of the eyes ; nasal completely divided, the cleft pro- 

 ceeding from the second labial ; a praeocular, separated from the 

 labials by a subocular; ocular in contact with third and fourth 

 upper labials ; eyes distinct, under the suture between the prseocular 

 and the ocular ; four upper labials. Diameter of body 68 times in 

 the total length ; tail about twice as long as broad, with a very 

 small spine. 18 scales round the body. Black above, reddish 

 brown inferiorly ; lower surface of head and anal region white. 



Total length 136 millim. 



Java ; Ternate. 



89. Typhlops disparilis. 



Typhlops di«parilis, Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 8, 1. l,pls. v. & vi.fig. 6 (1800), 

 Diaphorotypblops disparilis, Peters, Sits. Ges. naturf. Fr. 1881, 

 p. 70. 



Snout round, moderately prominent ; nostrils lateral. Rostral 

 narrow, extending to the level of the eyes ; nostril between two 

 nasals, the anterior of which is small and in contact with the first 

 and second labials ; a prajocular, larger than the ocular, in contact 

 with the second and third labials ; a subocular, separating the ocular 

 from the labials ; eyes distinguishable ; upper head-scales slightly 

 enlarged ; four upper labials. Diameter of body about 50 times in 

 the total length ; tail as long as broad, ending in a spine. 18 scales 

 round the body. Uniform brownish. 



Total length 300 millim. 



Hah. ? 



90. Typhlops microstomus. 



Typhlops microstomus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1866, p. 125 ; Bo- 

 court, Miss. Sc. Mex:, Rept. p. 500 (1882). 



Snout rounded, flattened and very prominent ; nostrils lateral. 

 Proeocular present, broader than the nasal, in contact with the second 

 labial ; a subocular, separating the ocular from the labials ; eyes 



