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without lobules. Scales in twenty rows around the body, smooth or with 
faint indications of keels, broader on back and tail, very broad below the 
tail, Four enlarged preanal shields. Limbs pentadactyl, hinder reaching 
three-fifths of the distance to the axilla. 
Light yellowish brown, edge of head plates brown, with keel-like marks of 
brown on the median dorsal rows of scales, with a white band from the supra- 
oculars on each side of the body, distinctly and regularly edged by a band of 
brown on the back and another through the eye to the base of the tail. 
Lower parts of flanks and upper portion of limbs and toes mottled with small 
spots of brown and of white. Entire ventral surface white. 
Cooktown ; Mr. Olive. 
Ablepharus heterurus, sp. nov. 
A larger species than A. eximius, with the head less rounded. Head mod- 
erate ; snout pointed, rostral not projecting. Eye incompletely surrounded by 
granules, two to three small scales representing the upper eyelid. Rostral in 
contact with frontonasal; frontal less than half as large as the latter and widely 
separated from it, in contact with two supraorbitals. Four supraorbitals, second 
largest, Frontoparietals and interparietal fused and forming a plate about four 
times as large as the frontal. Frontal and frontoparietals meeting in a short 
transverse suture. Four supraciliaries, anterior elongate. Parietals large, 
meeting behind the interparietal. A pair of very large nuchals, followed 
by a smaller pair, back of which the width gradually decreases on the neck. 
No supranasals; a suture from the nostril backward in the nasal. Five 
labials anterior to the large subocular. Earopening small, without lobules. 
Scales smooth or feebly keeled, in twenty-four to twenty-six rows around the 
body, those of belly and flanks subequal, those of the back and tail much 
larger, those of the median subcaudal row largest. Tail longer than head and 
body. 
Lustrous greenish olive; with arather indistinct stripe of greenish white on 
each side of the back, irregularly edged with somewhat fused spots of brown, 
from supraorbital to tail; back, flanks, limbs, digits, and tail freckled with 
small spots of brown and of white. Ventral surfaces greenish white to 
greenish yellow, more green under chin and throat. Mental and rostral 
white. The distal one-third or two-fifths of the tail is colorless in alcoholic 
specimens. Probably it was red or yellow in life; the contrast with the 
darker colors of the anterior part of the tail and the body is very marked. 
Apaiang, Gilbert Islands ; Andrew Garrett. 
Typhlops Wiedii Per. 
The colors of T. Wiedii are described as ‘* buff above, yellowish inferiorly.” 
The form represented in this collection is brown on the back, with ten longi- 
tudinal streaks of light color on the edges of the scales, and is whitish on the 
