1871.] P. Stoliczka — On Indian and Burmese Ophidians. 420 



18 longitudinal rows of scales, about 390 transverse rows round 

 the body and 1 7 round the tail ; this is nearly three times the 

 length of the head, very obtuse and terminating with a minute point. 



General colour above shining deep brownish black, the base of 

 scales being somewhat dull black, sides vinaceous, paler on the 

 lower side, which is throughout checkered with white ; mouth and 

 the tail below, including the tip, also mostly white. 



This species resembles in general form and number of scales the 

 Ceylonese T. mirus, but differs from it by having a lower prse-ocular 

 besides a distinct sub-ocular, and in the arrangement of the labials ; 

 the colour is also somewhat different. 



Hdb. Andaman islands. A single specimen has been examin- 

 ed ; it measures about 6 J inches of which the tail is \ inch. 



Typhlops Theobaldanus, n. sp. PI. xxv, figs. 5 — 8. 



T. ? Theobald, Cat. Kept. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1868, p. 42. 



Body very long and comparatively slender, of nearly uniform 

 thickness throughout. 



The general structure and arrangement of the head-shields and of 

 the labials agrees with those in T. porrectus, but the rostral reaches 

 very far back on the top of the head, and is considerably more 

 than one-third (nearly %) of its width, much contracted, however, 

 below ; the first frontal is very slightly larger than the second, and 

 the inter-parietal is very short, but about equal in width to the 

 preceding frontal. The head itself is rather obtuse and somewhat 

 depressed ; the head shields most minutely punctate ; eyes per- 

 fectly indistinct. There are 22 longitudinal rows of scales round 

 the body; 485 transverse rows on the trunk, and 26 on the tail, 

 which is of considerable length, terminating in an obtuse point, 

 not developed into a distinct spine. The circumference is ¥ * ff th the 

 length of the body. 



Total length 14 inches of which the tail is T 7 .jth inch. The 

 general colour is rather pale greyish brown, slightly paler below, 

 no particular dark markings are seen on the scales. 



The species is readily distinguished from T. tenuicollis, Peters, 

 (Monatsb. Berlin Akad., 1864, p. 272), said to be from the Hima- 

 layas, and also possessing 22 longitudinal rows of scales, by the 

 great length of its tail. 



