336 MR. G. A. BOULKNGER ON THE [Mar. 15, 



one of tlie specimens, which has a very smnll shield ahove it) ; 

 Tostral fi)rrniiig a hroarl, straight suture witli the frontonasal, which 

 is much broader tl:an long ; pr8e'roi.t;ds foiining a median suture ; 

 frontal much narrowed posterioilv, as long as or shorter ti)an fVonto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first and 

 second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first longest ; eiglit or uine 

 Siipraciliaiics, first largest ; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, 

 former lunger than latter; parietals forming a suture beliind the 

 interparietal ; uo enlarged unehals ; fifth upper labial largest and 

 below the centre of tlie eye. Kar-opening ov;d, nearly as lurge as the 

 eye-opening ; no auricular lobules. Scales smooth, or dorsals and 

 laterals indistinctly pluricariuate, laterals smallest ; 40 scales round 

 the middle of the body. A pair of enlarged prseanals. Tbe hind 

 limb readies the elbow of tbe adpressed fore lim.b or the axilla. 

 Digits rather elongate, slightly compressed ; subdiuitnl lamellae 

 smootii, 22 to 25 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a iialf the 

 length of bead and body. Dark brown aliove, with strong metallic 

 gloss: back black-spotted; sides with black and whitish spots 

 elegantly arranged ; a black band on eatli side of the head, passing 

 throiigli the eye ; sometimes a large, blark, whitp-edi;ed spot on each 

 side ot' the neck ; lower surl'aces brownish white, clouded or longi- 

 tudinally streaked with darker. 



millim. 



Total length 130 



Head 13 



"Width of head 9 



Body 49 



Fore limb 17 



Hind limb 27 



Tail (reproduced) 68 



Four specimens from Faro Island. 



Lygosoma albofasciolatum, Gthr. 

 Faro Islaud. 



Typhlops aluensis, sp. n. (Plate XXVHI. fig. 2.) 



Body much elongate, of subequal diameter throughout. Snout 

 depressed, rounded. Nasal completely divided ; a prseocular 

 separates the nasal from the ocular, which rests on the third and 

 fourth upper labials ; eye very distinct ; the so-called rostral rounded 

 posteriorly, its width about three fifths the distance between the eyes ; 

 a small azvgos shield separates the rostral from the mouth. 22 

 scales round the middle of the body. Tail comparatively long, twice 

 and one third as long as broad at the base, tapering, ending in a 

 spine. Brown ahove, yellowish inferiorly ; upper head-shields edged 

 with yellowish. 



Total length 245 millim. ; diameter of body 4 ; length of tail 10. 



A single specimen, from Alu, Shortland Islmds. 



