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38 TYPHLOPID®. 
eyes, the portion visible from below a little broader than long; 
nasal completely divided into two, the cleft proceeding from the first — 
labial; preeocular present, much narrower than the ocular, in contact 
with the second and third labials; eyes distinguishable; prefrontal 
and supraoculars larger than the scales on the body ; four upper 
labials. Diameter of body 36 to 49 times in the total length; tail 
broader than long. 18 or 20 scales round the body. Orange, with 
black longitudinal lines running between the series of scales and. 
becoming indistinct on the belly. 
Total length 390 millim, 
Tha do Principe, West Africa. 
55. Typhlops decorosus, 
mba = Sao aapanars decorosus, Buchh. § Peters, Mon. Berl. 
Ac. 1875, p. 197. 
Closely allied to 7’. elegans, but body more elongate, its diameter 
66 times in the total length, and 24 scales round the body. 
Total length 330 millim. 
Cameroons. 
56. Typhlops obtusus. 
Typhlops (Onychoce yesee, obtusus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ae, 1865, 
260, AS yr fig, 9, and Reise n. Mossamb, iii. p. 95 (1862). 
aa very prominent, rounded, with inferior nostrils. Rostral 
large, more than half as broad as the head, the portion visible from 
below as long as broad; nasal semi-divided, the cleft proceeding 
from the first labial; preocular present, much narrower than the 
nasal or the ocular, in contact with the second and third labials; © 
eyes not distinguishable; prefrontal and supraoculars broad; four 
upper labials. Diameter of body 43 to 50 times in the total length ; 
tail broader than long, ending in a spine. 22 or 24 scales round 
the middle of the body. Dorsal scales brown or blackish, whitish 
at the base, darker on the sides; lower parts whitish. 
Total length 300 millim. 
South-east Africa. 
a-b, Ad. Shiré Valley. (Types) 
ec. Ad. Nyassaland, H. H. Johnston, Esq. [P.). 
57. Typhlops fornasinii. 
Typhlops fornasinii, Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mosamb. p. 13, pl. iii, fig. 1 
(1847); Jan, Icon. Gén. p. 17, 1. 5, pls. v. & vi. fig. 5 (1864) ; 
Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. "94, pl. xv. fig. 3 (1882). 
On -chocephalus trilobus, Peters, Mon, Berl.’ Ac. 1854, p. 621, and — 
860, p. 80. ; 
Snout very prominent, depressed, rounded, with more or less 
distinctly trilobate horizontal outline ; nostrils inferior. Rostral 
