424 F. Stoliczka — On Indian and Burmese Ophidians. |_No. 4, 



Khasi hill specimens, extends from Mergrii northwards through 

 Burma and Assam into Sikkim. I have seen specimens from all 

 these parts. The median row of scales along the back is in a 

 specimen from Pankabaree of a slightly darker colour than the 

 rest of the body ; this specimen has 26 long, rows of scales on the 

 anterior part of the body, and 27 just behind the middle. 



Dr. Giinther (1, c, p. 173) suggests that Dum. and Bibron's 

 T. JDiardii may be the same as the present species, and Prof. 

 Peters (Monatsb. Berlin Akad., 1865, p. 262) appears to have 

 no doubt about their identity. Dumeril and Bibron give in 

 JDiardii 36 long, rows of scales which is probably a misprint for 

 26. But what makes me donbtful about accepting the older 

 name Diardii, is Prof. Peters' identification with it of his striolatus 

 and Giinther's hothriorhynchus. I have not seen a specimen of the 

 former, but would consider it a distinct species according Giinther's 

 description ; the latter I shall notice presently. Moreover, in a more 

 recent volume of the " Monatsberichte" (1868, p. 450), Prof. Peters 

 says that an adult specimen of Diardii has 28, and a young one 

 only 18 long, rows of scales. I do not mean to assert that species 

 of Typlilops should be distinguished solely according to the number 

 of rows of scales, but I can say that I never observed anything 

 approaching such a variation in any Indian species of Tt/phlops. 

 Indeed, if the proportions of the body should be the same in those 

 two forms, the scales certainly cannot be of the same type, and 

 vice versa. 



2. Typhlops bothrioehynchus, (I. E., p. 174). 



The type was from Penang, wherefrom I also received several 

 specimens, though very probably they were collected in the Wel- 

 lesley Province, opposite Penang. Dr. Anderson (J. A. S. B., vol. 

 xl, f)t. ii, p. 33) quotes the species from different parts of Assam, 

 and I have lately obtained through Dr. Day a specimen from near 

 Hurdwar. All these specimens agree almost exactly in every 

 point of structure, proportional size and coloration, with Giinther's 

 description. The Hurdwar specimen, for instance, has 24 long, 

 rows of scales, 312 trans, rows on the body, and 9 on the tail, the 

 latter terminating with a sharp point. The head shields are exactly 



