168 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, 



comes on, or earlier if it is chilly. They seem, he continues, sensi- 

 tive to climatic changes and carefully close their burrows with sand, 

 so that they escape notice unless searched for. 



My largest specimen out of five measures, body 6|- inches, tail 

 5$ ; and all have the large black spot on the inner side of the thigh. 



Charasia dorsalis, Gray. 



The verticillate arrangement of the scales of the tail is not 

 well seen in any of the specimens in the museum, although their 

 transverse disposition on the body is very distinct. The number 

 of large scales along the side of the chin varies from three to five. 

 The young is pale brown, with three broken transverse dark brown 

 bands, one over the nape and two behind the shoulder, with about 

 fifteen on the tail. 



llab. Chita, Nagpore district, Raipur, Southern India, Mysore, 

 Bangalore, Nilgherries to 6000 ft. (Gthr.), and Find Dadun Khan. 

 Its occurrence in" these widely separated localities indicates that it 

 is generally distributed over India proper. 



Typhlops bothriorhynchus, Gthr. I. c. p. 17-4. 



This specimen agrees in every particular with Giinther's descrip- 

 tion of the type. It measures 10 inches in length. I received it 

 from the Garo Hills. 



Typhlops horsfieldii, Gray. 



Length 13 : ^ inches. 

 Nazeerah, Assam. 



Oligodon dorsalis, Gray; Gthr. I. c. pp. 210, 211. 



This specimen is a female, with 188 ventrals and 3/ caudals; the 

 total length 11" 8'", the tail 1" 6'". 



Fifteen rows of scales. Rostral wedged in between the anterior 

 frontals, which are transversely elongated ; a deep transverse cres- 

 centic groove on its under surface. Posterior frontals large, broader 

 than long, pentangular, prolonged on to the side of the head, form- 

 ing a moderate-sized suture with the loreal and prseocular ; vertical 

 shield-shaped, hexagonal, broad in front, as large as an occipital, 

 Occipitals obliquely truncated in front. The nasals are completely 

 united ; but the position of the suture is indicated above. A mo- 

 derate-sized quadrangular loreal. One prae- and one postocular. 

 Temporals 1x2. Seven upper labials, the third and fourth enter- 

 ing the orbit. Two pairs of chin-shields, the anterior pair nearly 

 twice as large as the posterior, succeeded by two pairs of scale-like 

 shields. Lower labials six ; the first pair form a broad suture behind 

 the mental ; the second is very small, and the third very large. 



General colour brown, minutely spotted with black. Rostral shield 

 with a black centre and yellowish-brown margin. A black band on the 

 anterior and posterior frontals and anterior third of vertical, passing 

 downwards through the eye to the upper labials, where it expands into 

 a large subocular black spot. A broad black band over the occipitals 



