428 F. Stoliczka — On Indian mid Burmese Ophidians. [No. 4, 



transverse rows of scales, and the head shields are as described 

 above ; the smaller basal portion of the scales, however, is almost 

 throughout apparently the lighter one, it being blackish grey 

 in reflected light, while the larger terminal part is brownish. 



I have obtained this species alive in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, 

 and collected it also at the foot of the Parisnath hill, (in Wes- 

 tern Bengal) ; one specimen was sent to me by Mr. Mandeli 

 from the base of the Rangnu valley below Darjiling, and a 

 young specimen was obtained south of Agra. Most likely the 

 species has as wide a distribution, as T. braminus. In general 

 form it very closely resembles Giinther's T. pammeces, but differs 

 from it in the structure of the head shields and the number of 

 scales round the body ; the latter are 1 8 in number, as in T. mirm 

 from Ceylon, but the head shields are different, the nasal being 

 in the latter separate from the fronto-nasal, and there being a 

 sub-ocular present ; the body is also thicker in proportion. 



Fl. xxv, Fig. 1. Outline of the body in natural size, figs. 2, 3, 4, side, upper 

 and lower views of head and neck, enlarged. 



Typhlops Andamanensis, n. sp. PI. xxv, figs. 9-12. 



Body moderately slender, head depressed, roundly obtuse in front, 

 neck conspicuously slender ; circumference of body a little less 

 than ^Vth of its length. Rostral reaching far on to top of head, 

 rounded behind, slightly broader than one-third of its width. 

 Frontals, supra-oculars, inter-parietals and parietal, regular, 

 subequal in size j nasal small, separated from the fronto-nasals by 

 a suture in front and below ; fronto-nasals not meeting behind the 

 rostral ; two praa-oculars, one below the other, the lower much 

 smaller than the upper ; ocular moderate with the eye indistinctly 

 visible through the shield ; an elongated subocular present ; 

 four labials : first smallest, elongate, in contact with the nasal, 

 2nd much larger, narrowly touching the nasal, broadly the fronto- 

 nasal, and again somewhat narrowly the lower prse-ocular, 3rd 

 in contact with the lower prse-ocular and the sub-ocular, 4th slightly 

 smaller than the third, and only narrowly touching the sub-ocular 

 and more broadly the lower post-ocular. Lower rostral small, 

 followed on either side by 5 subequal lower labials. There are 



