56 TYPHLOPIDiE. 



the level of the eyes ; nasal extending over the eye, in contact with 

 the ocular, which is small ; a prseocular and a subocular ; eyes dis- 

 tinguishable ; four upper labials. Diameter of body 62 or 63 times 

 in the total length ; tail very s\ort. 25 scales round the middle of 

 the body, 27 anteriorly. Black, with a yellow vertebral stripe 

 three scales wide ; a stripe on the rostral, lower surface of snout, 

 and lips brownish yellow. 



Total length 375 miUim. 



Somaliland and Zanzibar. 



a. Ad. Mombasa. Mr. Last [C.]. 



97. Typhlops acutus. 



Onychocephalus acutus, Dum. 8)- Bibr. vi. p. 333 (1844) ; Gilnth. 

 Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 177, pi. xiv. fig. A (1864) ; Tefers, Mon. Berl. 

 • Ac. 1865, p. 263 ; T/ieob. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 126 (1876). 

 Typhlops russellii {non Schleg.), Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 132 (1845). 

 Onychocephalus wesiermanni, Liitk. Vid. Meddel. 1862, p. 306, pi. i. 



fig- S- . . 



Typhlops excipiens, Jan, Icon. Gen. 9, pi. i. fig. 5 (1865). 



^ Gryptotyphlops acutus, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1881, p. 70. 



Typhlops acutus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 242 (1890). 



Snout pointed and hooked, with sharp horizontal edge and inferior 

 nostrils. Rostral very large, extending posteriorly far beyond the 

 level of the eyes ; nostrils close to the rostral ; nasal extending over 

 the eye, in contact with and nearly as broad as the ocular ; a prse- 

 ocular and a subocular ; eyes distinguishable ; prsefrontal and supra- 

 oculars much broader than the scales on the body; four upper 

 labials. Diameter of body 40 to 60 times in the total length ; tail 

 as long as or shorter than broad, terminating in a spine. 28 to 

 34 scales round the middle of the body, 30 to 36 anteriorly. Pale 

 brown above, each scale with or without a yellowish transverse 

 streak ; yellowish inferiorly. 



Total length 610 millim. 



India. 



a. Ad. India. Dr. P. Russell [P.]. (Type of 



T. russellii.) 

 E. A. Miuchiu, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Leith [P.]. 

 Dr. Leith fP.]. 

 Dr. Leith [p.]. 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sir A. Smith [P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.j. 

 Col. Beddome lC.J. 



(O. malabaricus, Bedd.) 

 Col. Beddome [C] 

 Col. Beddome [C. 

 Col. Beddome [C 



