654 MB. STANLEY S. FLOWEB OK THE [May 16, 



94. TxPHLOPS ALBioEPs. (Plate XXXVII. Hg. 1.) 

 Typhlops alhiceps, Blgr. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 7, vol. i., Feb. 



1898, p. 124. 



This species was described from a single specimen 1 obtained 

 from a native, who said it was from Chautaboon ; af terwai'ds we 

 found a second individual among some earth in our garden at 

 Bangkok. 



Colour (in life). Above and below uniform dark brown, highly- 

 iridescent. Head very pale purplish pink, turning to pale yellow 

 on the snout. The tip and under surface of the tail are whitish 

 buff. Total length 190 mm. 



Hah. Siam. 



95. TxPHLOPs TLOWERi \ (Plate XXXVII. fig. 2.) 



Uab. Siam. 



Family Boid^. 



96. Python beticulatus (Schneid.). 



Pytlion reticulatus. Cantor, p. 55 ; Blgr. Cat. Snakes, i. p. 85. 



Siamese. " Ngu-laam." 



Malay. " Ular sawa." 



Localities. The Eeticulated Python (commonly called " Boa 

 Constrictor" by the English of Indo-Chiua) is fairly numerous in 

 suitable places in the Malay Peninsula. Ihave seen specimens 

 from Penang, Province Wellesley, Perak, Selangor, Johore, and 

 Singapore. In Siam I have seen only Bangkok specimens, but 

 there can be no doubt that this snake is widely distributed 

 through the country. 



Habits. This python is very numerous in the city and suburbs of 

 Bangkok ; in almost every compound of which I know the occupants, 

 either private houses or offices, one or more pythons have been 

 found within the last few years. Strange to say, it is not in the 

 quiet jungle-forest that the python seems to prefer to live, but in 

 the busiest spots along the Menam, where steamers and junks are 

 loading and unloading, steam-launches whistling, steam-saws 

 buzzing, rice-mill chimneys filling the air with smoke, and 

 hundreds of noisy coolies passing to and fro; here he selects 

 some hole or crevice in building, timber-stack, or bank to spend 

 the day in, and at night makes an easy living, devouriug fowls, 

 ducks, oats, dogs, and, it is said, pigs (which, together with countless 



^ Typhlops fluweri, sp. n. — Snout romided, very prominent; nostrils lateral. 

 Eostral two-fifths the width of the head; nostril between two nasals, the 

 anterior in contact with the first and second labials ; a praeocular, narrower 

 than the ocular, in contact with the second and third labials ; eyes distinguish- 

 able ; upper head-scales scarcely enlarged ; four upper labial?. Diameter of 

 body 85 times in the total length ; tail three times as long as broad, rounded 

 at the end, without spine; 18 ssales round the body. Black; snout and anal 

 region yellowish. Total length 210 millim. 



A single specimen from Siam, without precise locality, was sent to the 

 British Museum by Mr. Flower, after whom I have the pleasure of naming the 

 new species.— G. A. Boulenger. 



