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II. Snout with sharp horizontal edge. 

 No subocular ; 28 scales round middle of body, the diameter of 



which is 55 times in total length T. acutirostris 



No subocular ; 24 scales round middle of body, the diameter of 



which is 90 times in total length T. somalicus 



A large subocular, separating the small ocular from the upper 



labials ; 24 scales round middle of body, the diameter of 



which is 50 to 63 times in total length T. uniteeni 



1. Typhlops socotranus Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. IST. H. (6) iv. 

 .1889, p. 362, and Cat. Sn. i. p. 21, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



Socotra. 



2. TypHLOPS cuNEiROSTRis Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1879, p. 775, 

 pi, — ^ fig, 4 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 32, and Ann. Mus. Geneva 



(2) xvii. 1896, p. 10. 

 Somaliland. 



3. Typhlops blanfordii Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) iv. 

 1889, p. 363, and Cat. Sn. i. p. 39 ; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torin.xii. 

 no. 273, p. 1. 



Abyssinia, Erythrea. 



4. Typhlops punctatus Leacli. 



Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 42. 



Typhlops adolphi Sternf. Mitth. Zool. Mus. Berl. v. 1910, p. 70. 

 Tropical Africa, as far north as the Gambia and the Bahr el 

 Gebel ; not recorded from Somaliland. 



5. Typhlops acutirostris Mocquard, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1905, 

 p. 77. 



Shoa. 



6. Typhlops somalicus Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 536, 

 pi. XXX. fig. 1, and Cat. Sn. iii. p. 589. 



Somaliland. 



7. Typhlops unit^niatus Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1878, p. 205, 

 pi. ii. fig. 5 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 55, and Ann. Mus. Genova 



(3) V. 1912, p. 331 (var, atceniatus). 

 Somaliland and British East Africa. 



Family GLAucoNiiDiE. 

 A single genus. 



1. Glauconia. 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 139 ; Bouleng. Cat. Sn. i. p. 59. 



Synopsis of the tipec'ies. 



I. Ocular bordering the mouth. 



A. Snout more or less stronglj' hooked in profile. 

 Eostral extending posteriorly to the level of the eyes ; diameter 



of body 70 to 113 times in total length G, macrorhynclius. 



